Ms Laura Magahy:

I can take that question. The elective hospitals were designated as elective ambulatory hospitals in the national development plan. We have devised a national model for ambulatory elective hospitals. We understand that it is not everything that is required either by Cork or Galway, or other areas around the country. We have had substantial engagement with the South/South West Hospital Group as recently as last Friday. We are coming together to get an understanding of how we can make sure that its requirements and those of the elective hospitals can be done in tandem. When we went out looking for sites we made sure that we were looking for a site that was big enough to accommodate both the elective hospital's ambulatory requirements and the inpatient and overnight stays, which I know is the wider ambition of the South/South West Hospital Group. I am in weekly contact with the group. Its consultants, KPMG, and our consultants, PA Consulting, are talking together about how to make sure that the two requirements dovetail and overlap.