Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will give my view. If BAM meets its 14th deadline, if we take full charge of the hospital in June, as it is stating we will, if our commissioning teams get early access to this so-called hot block and if the commissioning work proceeds as it is being planned, then the timeline would suggest the end of 2025. There is then a clinical decision about whether it is appropriate to move in the eight most intensive weeks of winter. We will be led clinically on that. However, as we have all said here, the genesis of my meeting with Royal BAM was that I did not have confidence and the board did not have confidence in the June deadline. I am saying that if it meets its deadline, if it gives the commissioning teams early access and if this commissioning happens according to the schedule, then I think we all have to be focused on the end of 2025.