Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

It is the context that is important. It is not just the children's hospital. Blanchardstown hospital has opened its emergency unit for children. I am not sure what stage Tallaght hospital is at. We want to know that what we are spending, for example on IT systems, is in the context of that €300 million because they are obviously linked. It is the context of the spend in the two areas that have been raised in respect of which we need the information. It is in the overall context that we need to understand that spend.

In terms of the jobs website, there is an issue there in regard to job retention as much as anything else. I would like to hear what Children's Health Ireland has to say on that as well because there will forever be a website encouraging people to apply for jobs if it cannot retain the people and if it cannot retain people, there is a reason for that too. There is a circular argument there. We need that context and we need to know how those three entities fit in; we also need to know what is the slippage and whether or not that slippage will impact on the need to spend money, for example, on upgrading things while we are waiting if it is not brought in on time. There is a range of issues that I think are important.