Mr. James Menton:

Any issue to do with the arrangements of any part of the Elm Park campus would, in the first instance, be the responsibility of the board of SVHG. That has been the case in terms of the negotiations around perfecting the partnership model to construct this maternity hospital, going back to the completion of the Mulvey mediation and the publication of the Mulvey report. Obviously, there have been ongoing discussions subsequent to that. The board was approached by the Department of Health to expand the lease period from 99 years to 150 years and then from 150 years to 299 years.

Our view as a board was that, so long as we had a lease ownership model, which thus enabled the State to effectively own the building it was financing - and I, like any other taxpayer, want our taxpayers' interests to be protected - but, at the same time, afforded protections to us and Holles Street as partners in this framework, that was the-----