Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Okay. I want to come back to the proposal itself. It made no mention whatsoever of asbestos damage. The proposal made no reference to the fact that it was on a derelict site. The document we read stated that the engineering assessment outlined how the building is designed for several additional floors above the existing two floors. That was not true. The structural design will not support that. There was a whole list of things that were either excluded from the document or were misleading to say the very least. The fact that the university did not have an independent site evaluation means that because of the lack of competence and oversight, not alone have the Irish taxpayers paid €8 million for a site that was basically not what it said it was, but it will now cost upwards of a further €100 million. At what stage does the university take responsibility for the squandering of taxpayers' money for the simple reason that due diligence and oversight was not carried out?