Mr. Phelim Devine:

To date, 607 rooms out of the 5,680 rooms and corridors in the building have been offered by the contractor for inspection by the design team. What we are talking about is bringing the rooms to a pre-commissioning level of completion. I am referring to the point before the services, medical devices etc. are commissioned. I am referring to a position where you can really lock the door and not go back other than to deal with a couple of minor snags. Six-hundred and seven rooms have been offered and 27 have been accepted. Those are the IT rooms and the data centre within the hospital.

There are many rooms at different stages but they are not fully snagged or completed. There are different pieces required in each. There might be a bit of joinery or flooring, or a bit of mastic might be required around the joints. However, there are parts of the hospital, up in the ward block, that are still at first-side boarding. You can still see the stud frame. There is one side of boarding, the first fix. The mechanical and electrical elements have just gone in. It is not second-side boarding. The work is at different stages throughout the hospital, but the lower part of the hospital, in the south and north fingers and the hot block, basically below level three, has rooms that are probably 80% or 90% complete but that have not yet been offered to the design team.