Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I know that Mr. Pollock was not around. As we are talking about the financial accounts for 2013 and the impairment charges, we want to know. Mr. Pollock has said the board has learned lessons, but it cannot really have done so unless it knows what happened in the past. How did it happen that a footprint far in excess of what was available originally became available immediately after An Bord Pleanála had rejected the planning application? If it had been available, there would have been a different design. We ended up with an explanation that it had something to do with the footprint of the Mater Hospital when, in fact, it had had nothing to do with it. It was related to the flawed planning application to An Bord Pleanála.