Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

I want to be very clear about the elective hospitals. We are looking for planning next year for the Cork elective hospital. We are proceeding with the elective hospitals and the surgical hubs. One of the things we need to look at is the balance between additional surgical hub capacity and where we can reconfigure even further without potentially going for another elective. There may be other reconfiguration options. In any event, what we have very clearly in our determination letter is a commitment from central government that, where we bring something to shovel-ready, it will be funded and will be at the top of the queue for the next allocation of the NDP. I want to remove some of the ambiguity about that. Mr. Tierney might speak to that more specifically. We are proceeding 100% not just on our surgical hub capacity, but on our elective capacity because that is what is needed to build the infrastructure.