Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I apologise for interrupting, but I asked a different question from the one Ms Hardiman is answering. Her response is the same one we have been hearing every year for the past five years. We are told that people are meeting, that terribly important work is being done and that everyone is talking to each other, but we have been hearing that for years. My question is whether Ms Hardiman has any insight into why pretty much nothing has actually happened in those years.

We are in the process of building the children's hospital but the budget to begin the planning phase for the maternity hospital has not even been allocated. Has Ms Hardiman any insight into why that is happening?