Mr. John Pollock:

The building regulations here very often follow a similar regulatory pattern to those in the United Kingdom. In hospitals in the United Kingdom the practice is that sprinklers are not provided in hospitals. Therefore, we had discussions with Dublin City Council's fire department and agreed that we would put in sprinklers in the most vulnerable inpatient wards and that we would have sprinklers on three floors. We included additional escape stairs. Therefore, we went beyond what was included in the regulations. We did not just accept them and say we would do no more.