Mr. Robert Watt:

With regard to the Cork and Galway elective hospitals that were discussed at the committee previously there is a memo to the Government this morning and we are very hopeful it will be approved by the Government and no doubt they will make an announcement on that later on.

In terms of the process, there is establishing the need for a hospital and then there is going through the various aspects of public financial procedures. That takes time and it is instructive in relation to the memo that has gone to Government this morning as to the time it has taken us to get from the conception that we need to build these hospitals to getting the Government to approve, and then to go to the next stage which is design-----