Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

For the snag list for a three-bedroom semi-detached house, the buyer might or might not get an architect. In this case, the Department got a project management company, mechanical, electrical, lighting and energy consultants, and a leading firm of architects. Therefore, quite detailed inspections were done of Ardgillan college by the Department before the money was issued, yet it did not discover the problems. Mr. Loftus is really telling me it was not its job to discover the most serious problems that could possibly exist, namely, the structural and fire safety problems.