Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Briefly, I am reading from a report here that the action committee have. The evacuation report from the HSE dated 2019 raised no such issues of evacuation.

It is fine that Mr. Ruane talks of moving patients into different rooms. Patient safety is so important. However, we cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. It is an old building and one cannot apply new standards to old buildings. HIQA had not said that in its report. I want to see the segments of the HIQA report the Minister has quoted from in the Dáil. I want to see the segments of the report - I see them myself as we have it - from 2011 where the fire and safety had no such issues. There is too much shifting sand here.

To me and to all of us here, it is not acceptable by any shape, make or form. I do not know where we will go with it, but it is just not good enough. It is easier to reckon now. There is a builder here in the room, Councillor Kieran Bourke, who would have it every day of the week from his quantity surveyor people.

If you wanted to build that hospital and it was 2,000 sq. m or whatever, there would be a figure per square metre and you could spend ten seconds getting a rough costing for the hospital.