Professor Colette Cowan:

We did a plan initially with St. John's for 90 beds. The then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, visited the hospital and increased the number of beds to 120. Now the number is 150 beds in the latest strategy for the hospital. The issue has to be resolved. If funding does come for St. John's, then it is how one builds on that historical site because the walls of Limerick go through it.