Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

The facilities are outpatients, which everybody understands is a Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. facility. That actually is opening and we have all of the staff ready to proceed with it, as with the orthopaedic fracture clinics because they already take place in Temple Street. We do not have an increased number of fractures or we do not anticipate more children breaking legs but what we will do is depressurise Temple Street by moving them out of very cramped facilities in Temple Street into the new facilities at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown.

In terms of the urgent care, we are doing that in staged phases. It is a new building. People are getting used to the venue, which we are testing as much as possible. Summer time is a quiet period for urgent care. Like everywhere else, winter is when things get very busy. Some staff will come in over the next weeks and months. We are doing this on a staged basis and will be going out and communicating the hours of opening. We will open them on an increasing, phased basis over the next few months.