David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)

I have limited time and I accept that and I have always said that there is a responsibility on BAM. However, we are now 38 months and counting beyond the original completion date. Even today, we still do not know when the full, final handover completion date will be, so it is really frustrating. Every single time we come into a committee session, there is still no date that we can have any confidence in. It is so frustrating for people.

I want to move on to the mid-west because an important report was published yesterday, which provides three options. The two main options, I would say, are additional beds and the potential for a new model 3 hospital, in whatever form that might take in the mid-west. Does the Minister accept the need for a new model 3 hospital, whether it is a new hospital or whether it is elevating one of the two model 2 hospitals in Ennis or Nenagh? Does she accept that this is now required, from a policy perspective?