Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses can certainly comment on why there was so much impairment relating to the design and planning work that was done. This accrued from work that was done previously on a stand-alone hospital on the Mater hospital site. The stand-alone hospital was to replace Temple Street and the work was carried out prior to the decision on the national paediatric hospital. There were, therefore, two sets of designs, plans and so on and most of this is now impaired. Surely if a significant amount of consultancy work was done by competent people on what was to be a top-class development of excellence, it should not now be impaired. Surely there should be some transferability.