Martin Conway (Fine Gael)

I thank the Minister of State. He is just delivering the message and we appreciate that, but it has taken a year and a half and we still have not had this HIQA report published. Were it to recommend an additional ED in the mid-west, between site purchase, planning, design, QS work, construction and fit-out it would be 2035 before we see another emergency department. That is not good enough for the people of Clare, Limerick and Tipperary who find themselves in a difficult situation on a trolley in an ED for days, like the 79-year-old my colleague spoke about. We need to get real. We need to get urgent. We need to put a bomb under this whole process because it is simply too long. It is not good enough and people are suffering.