Mr. Paul Reid:

On the first question, I am certainly not avoiding meeting people from the Rotunda or anywhere else. In my first six months in this job, I have spent most of my time travelling around the country, visiting acute care settings and meeting the management on site. I have spent less time, to date, in the Dublin hospitals because I wanted to make my presence felt around the country. That said, I have been in the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street and am very happy to meet management at the Rotunda. I certainly have not been avoiding them.

On the overall issue of capital investment, as the Minister has said there has been engagement with the hospital in an effort to arrive at an agreed plan for such investment on site.

Mr. Woods will be able to comment further on that but certainly there has been engagement with the hospital by our estates team. I am quite happy to meet them and certainly have not been avoiding them. I have met hospital groups, hospital CHOs and chairpersons of boards all across the country. I have probably met more in the last six months than any previous director general.