Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you, Mr Speaker. Could I begin by wishing the member for Taieri all the best for solving the ambulance issue in South Otago, and I trust that she will join me in keeping the Government's feet to the flames on the issue that I want to talk about. Four years ago next month, the previous Government approved the indicative business plan for the complete rebuild of Dunedin Hospital. The options included renovating what was already there; we decided not do that, the best thing to do was to completely rebuild it. Our preference was for it to be in the centre of the city and near the University of Otago. I have to say that that decision was made under some pretty fierce pressure from locals led by Labour Party members like David Benson-Pope and the local MPs, David Clark and Clare Curran. 