The idea of moving the Rotunda Hospital out to Connolly in Blanchardstown never made sense but, of course, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil would not listen. They used this makey-uppy plan to starve the Rotunda, the largest maternity hospital in the country, of resources, investment and development. Now that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have finally dropped this crazy policy I, and I am sure all the women of Dublin and beyond, expect to see action and investment for the critical care unit, for the sexual assault unit and for the full and extensive modernisation of the hospital. Eleven years have been wasted. For 11 years, Governments used this colocation plan as an excuse for inaction. The Government needs to get its act together now because women and babies simply cannot wait.

The Deputy make things up as she goes along. I was not in government in 2017 and neither was my party but that is not the point. There was good rationale for colocation. The Deputy knows that.

There was never a rationale for it.

Please, Deputy. It does not work like that.

Everybody agrees with colocation.

It is colocation with the Mater.

Deputy, it does not work like that.

The essentials of colocation are there. We did not starve the Rotunda of funding. How dare the Deputy say that? I just opened facilities. There has been investment in the Rotunda. This is an important development.

Minimal investment.

In our view, the expansion that is required is important for the protection of women and newborn babies. We would have preferred if planning was given. In our view, it was still justified, notwithstanding whatever happened in 2017 in terms of the colocation declaration. All of the medical world believes in colocation.

It is colocated with the Mater.

Not physically.