Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will address the question. The biblical term, the road to Damascus, has many turns, and thankfully some of those turns have gone in a U shape lately.

Going back to the hospital, what we really need is this HIQA review. I understand the terms of reference will be based on when Mr. Justice Clarke reports back to Deputy Donnelly. I suspect his report may very well recommend that there could be an additional accident and emergency department model 3 in the region. That could transpire and that may short-circuit what HIQA has to do. The timeline of that is absolutely essential and I acknowledge the Minister cannot tell us exactly when it is to commence. We were expecting that report to be out in the last week and it has not come out. When will this group report back to the Minister? It is essential for all of us here, belonging to parties or not, that this be in manifestos and in the next programme for Government to deliver on.