Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Last week it was explained to us that one of the issues about not knowing the full price was because medicine evolves and that it was not known how many cables would be needed for such and such a transmission and that each room had to have a closed circuit, so if the circuit went down, it would not shut down the whole ward.

However, there was something to compare it against if the outpatients department and urgent care centre were of the same spec. Last week, we were told that the board did not know what standard it was going for, but it did, as it was working to the same specs in the outpatients department and urgent care units. The board could probably have done a back-of-the-envelope calculation using square footage. The argument last week was that the board did not know how much X spec would cost. This week, we are being told that the outpatients department and urgent care centres are of similar spec.