Ms Angela Fitzgerald:

We have seen examples. As Mr. Egan said, we have the example in Galway but there are other examples of large campuses. I have seen them particularly overseas, where the campus extends across both sides of a street. The Mater hospital has some of that. A lot of its services are provided across the street. It came up in a discussion on how to develop a campus solution because there are benefits in attracting and retaining high calibre staff. Staff who are highly qualified when they come back to Ireland want to work in centres of excellence. They want to work where they will get the opportunity to use their skills, so that concentration of expertise is attractive to doctors, nurses and other therapists coming back. In that context, we have looked at whether there is potential to find an adjacent site. The benefit of that, as Mr. Egan said, is that some of the challenges of trying to build it all on one site would be de-risked. There would also be some decant options. That means that while the building is ongoing, there would be space to decant services. That is an option we have asked the HSE and the Government to consider.