John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister and his officials for their attendance before the committee on this very important matter. The Minister will take away with him the fact that the committee remains acutely concerned about the issues arising from the development of the national children's hospital. We will be monitoring it closely. Having visited, we know that, in spite of everything we have said today, when it is completed - we hope that will be on time and that children will be moving into it at the end of 2025 - people will see a hospital that was built to a very high standard. Officials from all Departments and all agencies of the State have been heavily invested in monitoring it. I thank the clerk to the committee and the committee officials. The meeting is now adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday, 10 October, at 1.30 p.m., when the committee will again meet with the Minister in public session to consider issues relating to University Hospital Limerick in the context of the mid-west region.