Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Senator's sentiments and that my response was rather vague on detail at this stage. If the Cathaoirleach is happy to allow the matter to be raised again in the House, I am happy to come back and get more detail for the Senator. I have some knowledge of it as a Minister of State from the area and had some discussions with the hospital group on the future of this hospital before the national development plan was announced. One thing I remember being struck by at that meeting was that one of the difficulties and challenges faced by the HSE, and I appreciate that this is a separate debate, was having to deal with two separate local authorities when discussing issues of infrastructure, sites and support services. Be that as it may, there is nothing we can do about that in this forum. I am happy to get further information for the Senator on the specifics of the process involved in identifying a site.