Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is fine.

I want to ask about Baggot Street hospital and the particular reasoning behind not having it offered while we have asylum seekers sleeping in tents. It is deplorable that we make such a meal out of this. We have a perfectly good building that could accommodate hundreds of applicants but we have them in tents and we are fighting over rural accommodation all over the country where protests are taking place. We have a perfectly acceptable former hospital owned by the State, the HSE being the biggest land hoarder or accommodation centre hoarder in the country, with 170 buildings. Why has the Department not insisted that Baggot Street hospital be facilitated as an IPAS centre?