David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Could I make one final comment because our time is tight and my time is up? Nobody would disagree with anything Mr. Green has said there. Here we are all of these years later and we do not have properly resourced paediatric ICU beds. We do not have the appropriately skilled staff to be able to operate those beds.

We do not have enough surgical theatre capacity. Mr. Green is saying we need two. My understanding is that maybe one might be coming, and it might be the end of the year, when, as Mr. Green stated, there is no reason that cannot be done quicker. There are other specialist staff that Mr. Green has mentioned as well.

Mr. Green also spoke of one of his colleagues - he himself had this experience as well - being taken on without having an operating room. Was that a recent appointment?