Mr. David Gunning:

It is an excellent question. The position we are in is regrettable. There are challenges but at times like this we all reconnect with the purpose. Our job is to design, build, commission and hand over this building but our purpose is not to have a building. Our purpose is to provide the highest standards of health care to the children of Ireland. I am extremely proud of the staff we have working both directly for us on the NPHDB team and the people who work indirectly for us, including the design team, our specialist advisers and others, and the passion and the professionalism they show in the face of significant challenge in dealing with trying to progress this project. One thing we would very much appreciate would be for the entire committee to come to our site and to see up close and personal what is happening, the challenges we are dealing with and the progress being made. There is still progress being made but not the progress we would like to see. That would be my single request to the Deputy and to his colleagues on the committee.