Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

As I said, it appears developers were on the previous board but numerous representatives of the semi-State sector are on the current board. There are no developers,per se, on the current board but there are engineers, architects and so on. There is a representative on the board for Trinity College and Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, but nobody carries a brief for the other main children's hospital, Temple Street, and the same goes for the Mater hospital and the Rotunda Hospital - all three were to be united on a single campus. Would it not be appropriate to co-opt a person onto the board who was part of the previous work on the initial decision on the location of the national paediatric hospital? Perhaps the witnesses are not responsible for this. Is it not the case that all paediatric institutions in the State, including those in Crumlin, Tallaght and Temple Street, should be represented on the board to ensure a full view of what is appropriate?