Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

Yes. The co-location with St. James's Hospital is about supporting the 22% of the really complex work we do. Our other core objective is meeting the local requirements of the local children, given that 48% of them live in the area within the M50.

If I may continue with the example, we are very successful in our paediatric cancer services. We are approximately fourth in the world with some of our outcomes. However, we have concerns with regard to adolescent cancer, because it is an area that falls between the adult and the paediatric services. The new cancer strategy has identified that as a key area for significant investment and improvement so we can save lives. Some of the adolescent children require paediatric chemotherapy regimens, which are very well understood by oncologists in the paediatric service, but because some of their cancers are adult type cancers such as sarcomas they need to be based with colleagues who deal with those in the adult service. In the future it is about co-working between paediatrics and adult services to get the best people together on these types of rare conditions. Internationally, that has been demonstrated to lead to better outcomes, which means more survivors and less mortality from these rare diseases. St. James's Hospital provides us with the opportunity to do that.