Professor Damian McCormack:

I am sure Children's Health Ireland has detail on that. I will not speak to it. I do not really know and, as I stated, I do not really think about it because I would rather focus on the health service today, as if that hospital were not being built. Today we have Cappagh, Temple Street and Crumlin hospitals and what the issue I would analyse is what staff are missing in those hospitals. There is also Cork, which could do much more but it was designated a second-level hospital, so it does not do primary-level paediatric orthopaedic surgery. Those seeking such procedures have to come to Dublin. That could change. I do not see why it could not. It is just a matter of getting quality surgeons down there who are willing to do the procedures. I am hopeful in respect of the system because, with the application of rational thought and the exclusion of some of the interference - and the private sector is one of the things I would say is interfering; in some ways useful and in other ways not useful - in the context of this chaotic system and slowing it down, taking some of the chaos out of it and dealing with individual items one at a time, I would be quite hopeful that we can get through this and sort it out, always focusing on the next child in the theatre. It is a chaotic system.