Dr. Emma Curtis:

As I said, this is more of an operational CHI issue, but my understanding, as a clinician working in the hospital, is that the laboratory in Tallaght University Hospital currently processes children's bloods because there is a paediatric unit within the hospital. There is a very significant and complex lab design within the main hospital on the St. James's site, which will bring in all the generic and highly specialist national lab services that are currently in CHI Temple Street and Crumlin. In terms of the provision within the main build, there is a very significant lab development within the children's hospital on the site of St. James's and almost everything will be done there apart from some very sophisticated tests that will always be international. As I said, there is always the provision within point-of-care testing, which has become much more sophisticated than it would have been historically. If a child were to come to an urgent care centre and bloods were needed immediately, the facility for that is available.