Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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I suspect the Minister is right. We are talking about a 99-year or 150-year lease. A lease commencing from the commissioning stage could be a ten-year process, while one commencing from the preparatory works stage will probably be a five-year process if everything goes to plan, which we know does not always happen in Ireland, and will actually be a 140-year or, perhaps, an 89-year lease. We have to include the construction work in consideration of the lease. Has the State done any work in terms of the end of that lease, which in the context of the lifetime of a hospital is quite short, and recovering the asset that, I presume, will be worth billions of euro at that stage?