Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Of course, building 120 beds in something like St. John's requires consideration, no more than building a surgical hub in Limerick. However, the issue is if it does not start to decompress the pressure on the UHL site by dealing with existing elective work and by taking it out of the UHL site to create the space they need for the emergency work. While it would be a very good effort because it will see lots of people, if they are lots of new people and lots of new, additional elective work that does not do anything to the UHL site, then it is not such a great endeavour. The priority has to be the biggest demand and the priority has to be on the pressure that is on that site. A lot of that is not caused by elective work but it is complex medicine.