John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is 4,600 clinical rooms. The project is over the hill in that sense but that is not a cause for complacency. There are still difficult questions to answer. I will not congratulate the board yet but I think its representatives have handled themselves reasonably well today. There may be people in the media or other commentators who do not agree.

The witnesses have a big responsibility in developing the site. The visit to the site helped to join many of the dots and gave me an overall impression. I do not know where a project manager starts work every morning on a project of this scale. It is truly phenomenal. There must be a couple of thousand miles of cables in the building.

When Tallaght University Hospital was finally opened it was so long overdue that it was discovered many of the required utilities in it did not fit because they had all changed in the intervening period. Nothing like that has happened with this project, has it?