Dr. John Lambert:

I do not think so. As I said, the Covid virus does not recognise hospital groups, it recognises patients. We need geographically located facilities to serve the patients. Of course, the population is bigger in the Dublin area, but there is a population in Ireland of 5 million people. The facilities should be located based on the prevalence of Covid, not on the presence of hospital groups. I would not have done it in that way.