Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

No problem. It is one of the most important issues. Obviously I have the same information as Mr Tierney. I really want to be very clear about the balance in this. We together are paying BAM to deliver this hospital and we together, the Irish State, has a contract with BAM, which it has to deliver. The Deputy is absolutely right to identify all of those changing dates. It is really important that we keep the focus on BAM's responsibility to meet its contractual obligations and to give us logical, early access in a way that is sequenced and makes sense and that does not give us rooms with 22 snags or 15 snags of varying proportions and that does not give us a room here or a room there. I have to be very open and transparent about that and I absolutely accept all of the back story and the background issues in relation to different forms of contracts or choices of contracts and all that. Today, I want the hospital as much as the Deputy wants the hospital. At the end of the day, the people in charge of the hospital at the moment are BAM. They have contractual responsibilities-----