Professor Damian McCormack:

Precisely. The Deputy is speaking my language. In fact, that is exactly what has happened. Having trained in Ireland, I went to Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas to train for two years. Most people would agree that is the best paediatric hospital on the planet. I was privileged to be accepted to it. My junior colleague, Mr. Paul Connolly, followed me and trained there, as did Mr. Green. We have a strong relationship with that fantastic North American stand-alone paediatric orthopaedic hospital and, of course, we could send people there, but that requires junior doctors who are willing and able to bring their families to spend two years in Texas or a similar place. That is in hand. The problem we have is that we are competing against a more lucrative and comfortable lifestyle as an adult orthopaedic surgeon doing hips and knees. In a private setting, such surgeons can potentially make millions of euro a year. Who wants to deal with spina bifida patients or cerebral palsy patients? It takes a particular type of individual to do it and we need to find those people.