Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have digested last week's information in the meantime and perhaps it looks different now but I have a concern about health services being dependent on projections that obviously do not stand up. For example, I have tabled numerous parliamentary questions on this subject since before the Mater project. At one point I was informed that some economies would emerge as a result of the work done on the Mater project on which, I believe, in the region of €55 million was spent. Is that figure correct? It could have been more. We were informed that the amount involved was approximately €55 million. That was probably to fob me off at the time. I was also informed that the preliminary work done there would be recorded as a benefit for the subsequent work that would be carried out at the next site. How much of that was of benefit to the work carried out at the next site?