Mr. Fred Barry:

The development board is over the day-to-day running of construction, building, equipping activities. There are quite a few different strands in the development of the hospital, including our colleagues in Children's Health Ireland who will operate the hospital; there is input on the ICT side from other parties and there are many issues around staffing and so on. There is a very broad array of interests and stakeholders in the project. There is considerable interest in the project on all fronts from the Department of Health and the HSE and that reports right up to the Minister. There is a steering group which meets monthly to track and co-ordinate progress from all the different parties including ourselves but going far beyond ourselves and a board oversees that.