Ms Tracey Conroy:

No, that is not the case. The CHP&P board is chaired by the Secretary General of the Department of Health and includes me as assistant secretary for acute hospital policy and the director general of the HSE. Those meetings are also attended by the deputy director general for strategy, who chairs the steering group and reports to that board, Mr. Pollock as programme director of the national paediatric hospital development board, and Ms Eilísh Hardiman as CEO of Children's Health Ireland.

They are the key people in single leadership positions on this project. They are all either members of the board or they attend meetings and report in.