Mr. Derek Tierney:

I will make a comment on that for the Deputy. The Deputy is right. Our focus is that we are in what we call the draft final business case phase of the project, which is about clarifying costs and bringing those to the Government in due course. At this particular moment, we have finalised the competition tender for health planner and co-ordinator. That is now in a standstill period and we hope to make that appointment and within the next 14 days, as we are obliged to do under public procurement guidelines.

We have also completed what we call a preliminary qualification or suitability assessment phase for the detailed design capability. That has been successful in that we have had a good response from the market and we have choices as to who we would appoint in the future. The next phase will be to develop a design brief and issue that to the successful bidder and, hopefully, have them on board, I would say, in early April.