Professor Peter Conlon:

Many of the elements of the plan are in place to be rolled out in the next six or 12 months to build an immediate short-term transplant unit at Beaumont Hospital, to commit to a larger unit in two or three years and appoint 30 staff. We have approval to appoint 30 staff. The consultant appointments committee is delaying the process. We have worked hard in recent years, but it will require the implementation of this plan and reaching the next second and third stages to have any hope of coping with the numbers of patients mentioned.