Ms Patricia Eadie:

I work in Crumlin hospital as well. We do not have a paediatric burns unit. Crumlin hospital takes paediatric burns greater than 10% of the body surface area, but we will pretty much take all burns. We have had a major issue there in that we have a 20% reduction in our theatre space. Recently we sent two burns cases to the United Kingdom because we felt we did not have the safe facilities to look after them here. I refer to the paediatric burns. It was because we do not have adequate theatre space. We do not have a paediatric burns surgeon, despite having an application in for one for quite a number of years.