Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent Ireland Party)

If we ever have a case again where we have a design like the children's hospital, can the Government please not do it? Look at what we have done in Limerick: we built a box. People want boxes to be built because one can add onto a box or put a box down. They want care. Consider the cost of maintaining the children's hospital, with round curtains, round glass, and furnishings that have to be specially made. Given the cost of even trying to maintain an existing hospital, how many hospital beds could we provide for people by building a box design? All the other hospitals have been built like boxes and we can actually maintain them. The Minister's budget would go further to make sure that we can give more beds at a better price and more care.

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