Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is a complex issue on which we got a letter from the committee this morning to come in and talk, so the Deputy will appreciate that we do not have detailed notes on ventilation systems. It is not what we were asked to come to the committee for. We got a letter this morning to ask if we would answer questions on the national children's hospital. I would be more than happy, Chair, with your permission, to ask the Department to write a detailed note to the committee because these are highly technical issues. We are talking about ventilation systems in individual operating theatres and what may or may not have happened over the previous 12 months.

The Deputy has asked me to give him an example. In his previous statement he stated that a stop order had been given. Mr. Tierney at least three times has stated very clearly that, to the best of his information, no such order was given, so-----