Dr. Peter Boylan:

A plot of adjacent land at the golf club would be as close as would be evident at many hospitals around the world. A reference was made to the Elm Park buildings, the ones down on the main Merrion Road, which are sometimes referred to as the McNamara buildings. When we almost owned those buildings or were close to having them given to us by the State, there was tremendous enthusiasm. It was considered to be absolutely clinically acceptable that we would site the hospital-----