Mr. David Gunning:

We are talking about the substantial completion, which is the end of the building phase. As I mentioned, we would expect to get a programme from BAM next week and be able to define that point. Children's Health Ireland will take over after and do its operational commissioning for whatever period of time that takes, which will determine the opening date for the hospital. Again, the programme is critical. For example, we bought all of this equipment - CT scanners and all of that. We need the programme to tell us when we get on to Siemens, General Electric, GE, Miele, or whoever it is who will provide this high-tech equipment, about when we want to get it manufactured, produced, delivered and ready to install. The whole programme BAM needs to provide must give us those dates.

The follow-on to the programme is that Ms Eilish Hardiman and the whole team of people in Children's Health Ireland, CHI, need to take this forward. They have several workstreams under their remit. They have to carry out the operational commissioning, do the digital hospital piece Deputy Hourigan referred to, which is the electronic health record, EHR, all the operating processes and the development of those, and merge three hospitals into one. All of these have to happen. It is critical we all have clarity on when the timing will be. If I were to ask for anything now, it would be certainty. I want certainty on the date.