We have heard about the ballooning costs of the children's hospital due to the failure to nail down details in advance. It now seems that the Government is embarking on another major project, the National Maternity Hospital, in the absence of clarification on key issues such as ownership, governance, ethos and environmental standards. In advance of discussion of this matter at Cabinet this afternoon, will the Taoiseach give an undertaking that no contract will be signed and no work will start on this site until there is absolute clarity about each of those issues, and that the details on each issue will be published in advance?

As the Minister for Health will give Cabinet a verbal briefing on the matter this afternoon, I do not have the information to hand. I may be wrong but I understand that while this project has planning permission it has not yet gone to tender. It would have to go to tender before we could have an indication of its cost. We have to know that first.