Mr. Jim Curran:

On the Mater project, I cannot be precise but I understand that the cost was of the order of €40 million. The benefit accruing from that project in terms of transferring was that the work done between 2007 and 2010 in developing the brief for the project and the business case led to the latter becoming the business case for the project at the St. James's Hospital site. There was a time saving in that regard.

We were not starting a blank page when the site was moved. The essential components of the hospital did not change. They were reviewed, as was outlined earlier, in terms of service developments and projections and they were verified at the time the brief was handed over to the new design team appointed for the hospital on the St. James's Hospital campus.