Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One area we probably have not touched on that I should have mentioned at the start of the meeting is the local residents. There has been huge patience and co-operation and the meeting should not go by without the officials addressing that and how it is going. Consider the impact having a huge building site on your doorstep would have in the form of noise levels and everything else.

I have a couple of other points. I do not understand the compound rate. Maybe there is a simpler term or maybe the officials could send us a note. I do not know about the people at home but I did not understand that and I assume many people listening would not either. It is important we as legislators know how that actually works.

The fitting-out of the hospital was mentioned and I raised during the visit the issue of the 60 ICU beds. On the basis of a growing population and so on, are there sufficient beds within the national children's hospital? We have not built it yet and we are talking about whether there is enough space in it for that and whether there is flexibility within the site if we wanted to put additional beds there. I asked that on the day and people were saying it was sufficient. Is it?