Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, to the best of my knowledge.

Deputy Kelly asked a number of questions. As he knows, we received a significant increased capital allocation - the best part of €500 million - in the health budget. He is right, in that the national children's hospital consumes the bulk of our available capital, but more so in the early years. The HSE will conduct a reprofiling exercise and there will be scope to progress a number of projects. As the Deputy well knows, a variety of projects must go through a number of phases in terms of planning, design and tendering. When we reach the service planning stage, I expect to be able to show progress.

I also expect to be able to show progress on the national maternity strategy. Tomorrow, we will launch the implementation plan for the women and infants programme, which is the strategy's delivery vehicle.

Regarding the mid-west, I do not want to get this wrong. As the Deputy did when he was a Minister, I communicate with my officials several dozen times a day. Sometimes, intelligent and astute journalists make freedom of information requests for those communications and publish them, as is their right. When I see high trolley numbers for a consistent period of time in any hospital, I will ask why. That is my job. There are particular capacity challenges in the mid-west. Is that the email that the Deputy has?