Mr. John O'Donoghue:

There is a clause in the lease which, as the Minister has said, provides that there is a commercial rent which will be abated to €10 per annum as long as the HSE complies with certain conditions. That is clearly set out in clause 4 of the lease and those conditions are very clear. Those conditions relate to the State continuing to provide public healthcare facilities from that building into the future and for the term of 299 years. That protects both parties. It protects St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, which owns the freehold interest in the site, to ensure that the State does not try to change the use of the facility to something else. This facility will be state-of-the-art but in less than 299 years, it will need to be redeveloped, replaced and refurbished. There is no guarantee that it will be required as a public hospital facility in the future so there is no reason for the State to have a freehold interest, or an interest into infinity, on that site. There are other protections in that document to ensure that this facility, once constructed, and which the State, through the HSE, has full rights over is used for 299 years for public healthcare.