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

This might be for Ms O’Donovan or it might be for somebody else. Where there is a set of decision-making around estates and capital funding and a set of decision-making around care plans and clinical governance, it seems to be obvious from the minutes that clinical professionals are articulating their unhappiness with decisions and saying that it is not in line with care plans and will not be good for their particular patients. Is there some kind of formal weighting as to who wins that argument? If estates say there is a problem with the building and the clinical professionals say that closing a particular building will create a significant and serious difficulty for a patient’s care plan, who wins? How is that navigated? I suppose it speaks to the Chair's issue around minutes. This is opaque. It seems to us on this side that estates won every one of those arguments.