Ms Tracey Conroy:

The chairs of the three children's hospitals are on the children's hospital group board which has responsibility for the integration of services. There is a close working relationship between the children's hospital group board and the National Paediatric Hospital development board. The children's hospital group board is the client for the project and there is an ongoing relationship in that regard. A good way of illustrating it is that before the design brief was approved by the HSE with the Minister's consent, and which the Minister brought to Government in July this year, the children's hospital group board signed off as a client on that design brief before it then went to the National Paediatric Hospital development board for sign off before submission to the HSE.