Shane Ross (Independent)

I wish to ask a supplementary question as I believe I am entitled to do. I thank the Minister of State for departing from that particularly irrelevant brief, for which I do not blame him. I appreciate that he took the trouble to answer some of the questions and undertook to report my inquiry on the children's hospital and the dangers attached to taking that to the Mater Hospital alone, to the Tánaiste. Will the Minister of State also confirm that the assurances given in the 1996 charter regarding the ethos of the Adelaide Hospital will be transferred in all cases in respect of the facilities going to the Mater Hospital?