Ms Mary Day:

My answer to that is that in respect of the pieces of work, what we have been doing with Navan and the Mater hospital and ensuring that this connectivity is successful, and I would suggest that we are doing a huge amount of work to make that connectivity successful, Navan is in the right group. Navan is as important to the Mater hospital as the Mater hospital is to Navan so we are providing an enhancement model for Navan. We have excellent hospitals and the right level and number of hospitals within this hospital group. Deputy Kelleher asked whether there was any strategic intent. I would suggest that there is strategic intent in the Ireland East hospital group because long before the hospital group structure was created, the Mater hospital, St. Vincent's hospital and UCD had come together to look at forming an academic health science model. The core of that group is two major academic teaching hospitals with a university leading out care across the pathway. Mr. O'Malley may want to comment on the Dublin Academic Medical Centre.