David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The final paragraph sums up the children’s hospital in a nutshell:

When the site visit was set up, it was intended to take two days, but because of the lack of progress, one day sufficed. Please note that the two days were programmed and the time allocated, flights booked and hotel accommodation reserved. We will therefore invoice accordingly.

They came to do two days’ inspection but it did not even take them one day because they were disappointed with the work that was done. Mr. Devine said in response to me putting this information into the public domain that this was a minor problem. He is now telling us that there are two expert groups – I am assuming STS is one of them – looking at this. Can he also confirm that there was a direction given as well? We also know that there was an employer representative direction given on 29 May to stop works in 11 of the operating theatres.