Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I believe that his party may have inadvertently been pulled into what is essentially a pretty tough negotiation between the State and other parties, whoever those parties may be. I am very happy to be wrong on that but that is my sense. The level of apocryphal warnings that were coming from Sinn Féin's health spokesperson are completely at odds with what the development board immediately stated publicly. I am not saying there are not issues. There may well be issues with the airflow. We know the development board has now brought the various experts together on that. I believe this is an issue the development board is managing, however. It stated very clearly that the scale of this is at a tiny fraction of that stated by the Deputy's colleague who, by the way, I believe to be acting in good faith. I do not for a moment believe he is acting in bad faith. It is at a tiny fraction of what was communicated by the Deputy's party.

I hope I am right and I hope Deputy Cullinane is wrong because, ultimately, there are only two things I care about in terms of this project. By a long shot, the first one is getting sick children treated in this hospital as quickly as possible. The second one, which is obviously also critical, is value for money to the State, which speaks to the Chair's point and I know it is the Deputy's view as well.