Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I am happy to answer the question. First, I thank the Deputy for his kind remarks about our staff. It is hard to get that out there every day. I can absolutely assure the Deputy that all of us as health care professionals come to work to care. We care about the people we serve. While there are many people on X today who say we do not care, we do. I am glad to hear he had that experience and is prepared to set it out.

With regard to the issue of parking, I visited University Hospital Galway last year for the establishment of a dedicated project board, which has now come to almost final fruition in a full development control plan for that whole site. Up to now, planned development was block by block, which can lead to quite chaotic scenes. Within that development control plan, thankfully, modern day health planners plan for parking. While I am sure there will be some who will criticise me for this, there is only one way to do parking in a hospital in the modern era, that is, to build up with tower block car parking. When you build, you also go underground. The fantastic underground parking under the new emergency department in Limerick is a successful example of that. The notion and days of parking on the footprint of a site are gone. We need every bit of green grass we have to build the services we need.