Martin Daly (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)

Would it be right to say that the real weakness is that there is not a model 3 hospital in the region? In other regions there are model 3 hospitals as the intermediate piece between a model 4 and a model 2 hospital. Is that where the weakness lies? I accept the recommendation that producing a model 3 hospital will take time. What the Government and all of us here need to address is the delivery of critical infrastructure, not just housing and wastewater treatment, but critical infrastructure in healthcare which has such a long lead-in time. Perhaps that is for another day but the AB model seems to be the one that will deliver capacity more quickly.