Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Government should re-evaluate it, reprice it and, above all else and in line with the motion, ensure that this collective investment by the people ends up being owned on their behalf. That is the least that could be expected from a competent Government. I am told that there are further problems with the costing of the children's hospital that we have not heard about in detail yet.

I understood the announcement was to be made in October. We have now been told that it will be made by the end of the year. When we eventually get the final figures, are we just be supposed to lap them up? What the Government is doing is wrong. The Labour motion is a genuine attempt to help the Government to rescue and finance this important project properly.

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