Many parents in Wicklow rely on Tallaght hospital's emergency department for their children. I have often frantically made the journey on the hard shoulder with my child to bring them to the emergency department, where they get excellent care. When the new children's hospital is opened, the Tallaght emergency department will close for children and it will be an urgent care centre with daytime provision, which will close at 8 p.m. every day, so parents in Wicklow will have to bring their child into St. James's for any emergency care. We hear now that the handover will happen in 2025. That is what has been mooted. How many months will it be following that point until the Tallaght emergency department will close for children in Wicklow? Many parents in the county do not realise that the Tallaght paediatric service will close once the St. James's hospital is open.

The Minister for Health can engage on that more specific issue but the more fundamental point I would make is-----

He can do it here now if he wants. I am happy for him to take it.

I think I have to take the first four questions.

He can tell the Tánaiste what the answer is.

I am not sure he can. That is the problem.

I can give the Deputy Whitmore the answer. She asked two or three questions. The first was the-----

When will the Tallaght paediatric emergency service close?

We are not in a position to determine that right now. I have been around long enough to know that in the health sector situations evolve and facilities rarely close. They are either redeployed or used for something else, or they are kept on as they are. Obviously the whole idea of the national children's hospital is to have the best and most appropriate care for children with particular conditions. All of these timelines have been BAM timelines. I resolutely refuse to become involved in an arbitration process that is ongoing, with a difficult contractual relationship between the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and BAM.