Mr. Fred Barry:

There are long lead-in times, but there is not a lot left to be done.

As I am not a hospital programmer, I have no knowledge of how many rooms are needed. What is in place has come from the user requirements signed off on by the HSE, the children's hospital board and so on, the people who will be using the hospital. The decision on rooms was not just conjured up, rather, it was made by the experts who will be managing and running the hospital.

There will be fire certificates for the hospital. While there is more work to be done in obtaining them, I know that work has been done in adding sprinklers to the hospital to make it even safer. The cladding issues that arose at Grenfell Tower have been reflected on at length and changes have been incorporated into the design.

The role in equipping the hospital is shared between the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Corporate Health Ireland, CHI. Let us take the computers as an example. We will be installing much of the wiring, while CHI will buy the actual computers. There will, therefore, be an integrated approach. The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board will also buy much of the hospital equipment to be used such as imaging equipment. I do not know, but CHI may buy some other equipment. I do know, however, that significant discussions took place before I came along on whether things should be bought directly or through a managed equipment service. I am not part of those discussions because I came in after the event.