Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. The second issue I would like to touch on is the decision to move the Coombe Hospital to the St. James's Hospital site, which the Minister and I have discussed previously. I believe everyone understood at the time that tri-location was the main argument in favour of moving to the St. James's site. I will put aside the question as to whether the St. James's site was the right one, it came as a surprise to me to learn that planning and design had not started given that in 2015 the then Minster for Health, now the Taoiseach, gave a commitment that the development of the national children's hospital and transfer of the Coombe would be progressed in parallel. The last time the Minister appeared, he informed the committee that no funding was available in this year's allocations to even start the Coombe project. I asked him to give a commitment to see if he could allocate new funding to start the project. What is the current position? Has new funding been allocated to at least get the design and planning process under way?