Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Those of us who have been involved in this issue for many years will recall when St. Vincent's mortgaged the public hospital in order to build the private hospital, without any approval. There was a row about that and there is a real danger of that happening again.

I return to the definition of "clinically appropriate". The Minister said today that he has no difficulty in setting out that definition. It is very odd that there is no definition in all of those legal documents, even though there are six pages of definitions in the lease agreement. The Minister said he will set that out in a note to us. What weight would that document have? I know Mr. McGarr started to address that with Deputy Cullinane. The Minister says his 100% guarantee would be sufficient. Is that the case?