Shane Ross (Independent)

Will the Leader consider asking the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Brian Lenihan, to attend the House to expand on his very enlightened remarks and suggest a new system involving, at the very least, a hub, which could be the Mater if political imperatives so demand, with spokes around the city at other hospitals accessible to children through the traffic? This problem must be removed from the territorial political arena for which it is far too serious. For a hospital to be located in accordance with political convenience is completely unacceptable.