Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I share his frustration. There has been much talk about these elective hospitals for a long time. I would much prefer if we were farther along. What I can tell the Deputy is that the Sláintecare team is working hard on it. It is examining the various sites and models of care. As I know the Deputy will understand, much of this work, because of the pandemic, has not moved at the pace we would all like. The Deputy's points are well made and I will feed them back, as I have done previously. I will feed them back again to the team looking at both the sites and the model-of-care options for the elective hospitals.