Professor Chris Fitzpatrick:

At this stage, PwC has looked at the finances. Pragmatically, it is just too late to stop it now. I do not think there is a political will to do it or a will among the public to do it. The other issue is there is no ideal site. A greenfield site sounds fantastic but to make that into the type of location on which one wants to locate the national children's hospital, a maternity hospital that is delivering the highest risk babies in the State and adult services of the magnitude of St. James's Hospital, the Mater hospital and St. Vincent's Hospital-----