David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As Mr. Menton will understand, it is a very clear question. It is an issue that many people have raised. I will go through in a few moments this arrangement that we have landed on. Mr. Menton has spoken about the impossibility of managing what I assume he means to be a HSE hospital on the grounds of Elm Park where there is a private hospital and a voluntary hospital. I am not sure that this really holds water when the national children's hospital and St. James's Hospital are co-located. Whatever about the impossibility of that as Mr. Menton will see it - and I do not agree - we have ended up with a very convoluted and complicated company structure, which I might talk through with Mr. Menton shortly. If there are no preconditions imposed on St. Vincent's Healthcare Group in relation to what it does with the land, if the group is the sole owners of the land, and if there is no legal impediment to the board making a decision, then there are obviously other reasons. Is it the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group's right and the board's right to gift the land to the State if that is what it wants to do?