I should like to thank the Minister for the comprehensive reply he has given to my question. Can the Minister indicate when the unit at Lusk for special boys will be ready for occupation? The Minister has stated that he will be accepting tenders at the end of June.

I cannot say when it will be ready but it is hoped to invite tenders for the building of the school by the end of June.

Is the Minister aware that a three-year period was indicated by another Minister and will the Minister confirm that it will take that length of time?

I will check on the building arrangements and inform the Deputy.

Would the Minister be prepared to advance the arrangements for Lusk in the same way he advanced the arrangements for the hospital at Beaumont?

They are completely separate and different projects.

(Cavan-Monaghan): A different constituency.

We resorted to a very special arrangement for providing the hospital at Beaumont because an almost similar type of hospital had just been completed in Cork.

Is the Minister suggesting that this problem is not as urgent as the problem at Beaumont?

I have told the Deputy that there is no real comparison between the two projects—one is a hospital of approximately 700 beds while the other is a special school.

It is much smaller.

It is smaller but it just so happens that the plans, the staff and the professional team who were finishing the job in Cork were available to repeat the same process at Beaumont. Is the Deputy objecting to my adopting this process for Beaumont?

I am asking the question.

I am asking the Deputy a question.

I am asking the questions and the Minister should be answering them.

I am asking the Deputy a specific question: Does he object to my expediting the hospital building in Beaumont?

I object to the Minister not expediting the project at Lusk.

The Deputy does not understand the difference in the projects.