Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----but I want to make a few things quite clear. Irrespective of one's views on PwC, it has been asked to do a piece of work on which it will report back to Government, and the Senator might be cynical, throw her eyes to Heaven and do all that; that is fine. The comments by some people inside and outside this House lend themselves to scaremongering and hysteria. We had that in the House earlier in terms of projects in other parts of the country. Third, Senator Colm Burke gave a very good overview of where we are now and how we got to the point of development of the project. I chaired the Joint Committee on Health and we were on the site on a number of occasions. When I hear members of the opposition, in particular Fianna Fáil, talking about the national children's hospital I have to cast my mind back to when Bertie Ahern was Taoiseach. He wanted to have it located in his constituency but An Bord Pleanála overruled that. I say to Senator Wilson that the only place one can go after that is to the Supreme Court.