Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I and others posed questions about the independence of the hospital and the difference in circumstances between now and the time of the Mulvey report. There is an urgent need to proceed because the project is going to take some time anyway. We must get out of the way but we need to know the extent to which the independence of the hospital is going to be guaranteed. We also need to know about the independence of the State and we must acknowledgement the State's need to provide the services as already laid out and identified. What progress has been made to get those assurances? Have questions been raised and, if so, by whom? What has been the outcome?