Ms Patricia Eadie:

The Department of Finance, basically. It would start from the top in that we would need a lead surgeon around whom we would build the burns centre or unit. We would want that surgeon to link in to St. James's Hospital where the main burns centre is in order that there would be crossover between adults and paediatrics.

We have a 14-bed burns unit in St. James's Hospital. It has deficiencies. We have a burns surgeon there who took over from Mrs. O'Donnell who was in the job previously. He has major submissions in as well to try to upgrade that centre. We have problems with the fact we can only have three intensive care unit beds there. There can be times when we have not enough nursing staff to look after patients and we have had to say we cannot take any more burns cases.