Mr. John Pollock:

I would need to refer to my notes to say. One of the key pieces of work done on the Mater was the design brief. When one goes to design a hospital one must decide how many beds to put in, how many theatres, how large the out-patients department should be, how large the emergency department should be and how large the imaging department should be. The design brief on the Mater side cost approximately €4 million to €5 million to develop. It looked at the activity, operations and procedures taking place at the existing three hospitals - Tallaght Children's Hospital, Temple Street Children's Hospital and Crumlin hospital - and future-proofed the project for inflation growth between now and 2025. It projected the child population looking at current activity and modelling the number of operations to determine how many broken legs will be treated and heart surgeries undertaken. That whole activity was then converted into a design brief for the hospital setting out a need for 480 beds, 14 theatres, an out-patients department of a certain size and determining the size of the two satellite centres at Tallaght and Connolly and the level of clinical activity to take place at those hospitals.