Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It took five years for all of that to happen. Who was monitoring what the board was doing? Who was ultimately responsible? Was it the HSE or the Department of Health? Why did no one ask why it had taken five years to get an application to An Bord Pleanála when this was regarded as something that needed to be done very quickly and the Government was looking to have a national children's hospital in place by 2016?