Dr. Adrienne Foran:

It is an embarrassment to me as a paediatrician. I put many documents through in 2007 about how neonatal intensive care should be run in the new children's hospital on the Mater site, €30 million or probably €60 million was wasted and now we are being asked to do it again. I am working on the strategy for the new children's hospital and, as clinicians, we just want the thing built. We do not care where it is built. The children's hospital in Belfast will be built before our hospital is built. It is just an embarrassment to walk around Temple Street doing a ward round, as I am doing this week, and see the infrastructure that is there. It will be an embarrassment as a country if we cannot build a decent children's hospital.