Mr. Phelim Devine:

There is an existing fire certificate in place for the building and the building is fully sprinklered and has a high level of fire safety, well in excess of part B of the current building control regulations but also well in excess of the HBN, which is a particular UK design standard for hospitals. Related to that, we have an amending fire certificate in with the Dublin Fire Brigade at present. We got our original fire certificate in 2017, before the GMP was finalised, and there are slight tweaks and amendments, which is normal in a project of this scale. We are in the middle of a process with the Dublin Fire Brigade on that.

Regarding cladding, we are all aware of the tragic accident that happened in UK. At that point in time, we took a full review of the cladding we have on the hospital, and we changed certain elements of the installation behind the cladding. We anticipated there might be a change in regulations forthcoming, and while they have not happened as yet, we took measures to ensure that, when the building is built, we would have done a risk assessment in terms of what might change. We do not have any cladding on the hospital like that in the UK.