Sir, – Michael McDermott, in addressing the most recent estimated cost of the new national children’s hospital, acknowledges that €2.2 billion “is undoubtedly a lot of money” (Letters, February 15th).
But he calls for a little context – we will have a superb facility for about one week’s exchequer receipts.
Brian O’Brien and Colin Murphy (Letters, February 16th) bring a little more rigour to the ongoing debate.
The numbers quoted by them suggest that we should have three or four such hospitals for our money.
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Alternatively, if we were happy with just the one, we should have about €1.5 billion left over to waste elsewhere. – Yours, etc,
PAT O’BRIEN,
Rathmines,
Dublin 6.
