Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not sure trawling through my speeches is the best use of taxpayer's money. I had not noticed that was the case, but I will make sure to include the national children's hospital in more of my speeches in the future. It is a project the Government will deliver. It has been said many times that it will cost €1.7 billion. One only gets to that figure by including the €30 million or €40 million a Fianna Fáil Government spent on the Mater hospital site on a hospital that was never built. This project will be delivered and there for 100 or 200 years.

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