Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If Mr. Ruane is making those decisions, surely there should be costings done to see if it is viable and cheaper to do up St. Brigid's or any building rather than go to a greenfield site and build new.

Coming back to what Deputy Mattie McGrath says about planning, if anybody in this room went out tomorrow and tried to get planning permission on a floodplain, he or she would be turned down. Had the HSE any problem getting planning for that primary care centre in a floodplain? Did any questions even arise when the drawings went in and suddenly it had to be lifted 1 m and we had to put in a wheelchair ramp?