Search for "we are where we are" speaker:Joe Costello (KildareStreet.com)

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015): Joe Costello: ...boards' word for all of this. I accept that the new board comprises architects and that it is going about the process in a somewhat different fashion but the impression is given that the only reason we are where we are is because the Minister made a decision to transfer the children's hospital from the Mater site to the St. James's site. That is not the reason we are where we are at this...

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