Eugene Murphy (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The excellent centre in University Hospital Waterford has been mentioned. I am from Roscommon and Roscommon University Hospital has an outstanding unit but it just has not opened yet for palliative care. The same is happening in County Mayo through the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation. All that is excellent and it is the way to go. The buildings are just amazing and I presume it is the same in Monaghan.

I assume we all agree that trying to reconfigure 200-year-old buildings is a difficult challenge. Roscommon University Hospital lost its accident and emergency unit but we managed to get some new facilities and the hospital is going well. There were many things we could not do because it was such an old building. I ask the witnesses to point out some of the challenges that arise in old buildings. What cannot be done in terms of reconfiguration?