John Crown (Independent)

I, too, express my congratulations and best wishes to the Minister on her important endeavours. I echo the comments made by my colleagues with respect to the specifics of the rapporteur's report, but I would like to add one proviso. Nothing would impress me more about the sincerity of the Government in the area of child protection than restoring the funding to Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, and other paediatric hospitals which was savagely cut in recent years and which has resulted in palpable, measurable deficits in the levels of protection for children suffering from illnesses and various conditions for which they require treatment.