Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I do not mean to cut across Mr. O'Connor. I welcome a strategic framework. People who sit on committees like this are very used to that kind of language. However, there was a very straightforward way ahead here which was not to link the business case to the hospital currently in development. We hear all the time that versions of e-health are being rolled out in maternity care and elsewhere. Let us not link it to the children's hospital; that was the way forward. The strategic framework is excellent and fantastic. As we heard in January, we should redo the business case, leave the children's hospital to one side, look at international experience and go forward. That would knock at least two years off that timeframe.