John Dolan (Independent)
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I have just one question for Dr. Finn Breathnach. First, I would like to thank each of the witnesses individually and collectively and all the folk who work with them. The witnesses have certainly helped me and the committee to better understand what is involved. One of the witnesses make the point, in response to the case being by those on the other side, that there were no advantages to the children's hospital being located beside an adult hospital. To put it layperson's terms, are the witnesses saying that a child is simply not a smaller version of an adult or it could be put the other way around? I am not a doctor. Can the witnesses give me one or two practical homely examples of how that is not the case? I am referring to how putting one's hands to a child is different from dealing with an adult in the same specialty?