Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

I suggest he gets a CD into his ministerial Mercedes and listens to music on the way to Limerick, rather than coming up with these ideas.

Did the Minister for Health and Children put the suggestion to him or did he come up with it, himself? If it was put to him or when he came up with the idea, did he not think of asking the director of the medical corps if it was actually possible to use St. Bricin's? If he did not, why not? If he did, would he agree that the director, Colonel Collins, would have told him what he said in his article in the Irish Medical Times, dated 7 March 2005, to the effect that it simply could not be used as a civilian facility in its current condition? He said a working group had investigated the possibility but found it was not feasible.

See this speech in context