Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
9:30 am
Mr. Kevin McCarthy:
On Baggot Street hospital specifically, it was considered as part of the accommodation working group refurbishment programme led by the Department of housing. A survey or site inspection was undertaken by Dublin City Council.
It was ruled out for development on cost grounds. It is an old, listed building. The investment required to bring it up to a standard that we would use, both in terms of the timelines that would involve-----