Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Planning permission was refused in February 2012. Planning permission for the new hospital was granted in April 2016. In that period, the plans were drawn up and the bill of quantities was sent out to the builders to enable them to quote. However, the minute detail was not set out because it would have taken 12 months to facilitate this.

I wish to give Senators an idea of the scale of this hospital. There will be 6,151 rooms. The hospital will be the length of Grafton Street.