The taxpayer watchdog is to call in the H-S-E over a multi-million euro over-run on refurbishment of a hospital in Tipperary.
The Public Accounts Committee has heard that not a single patient was in Our Lady's in Cashel when the Health Minister visited recently.
PAC was alerted by Independent TD Mattie McGrath about an over-run of some seven million euro on the project.
And fellow Tipperary TD, Alan Kelly outlined how the hospital isn't being used:
"I visited this hospital with the Minister for Health. Just to tell the committee, there wasn't one single patient in the building.
So it's not just a case of where did the 7 and a half million euro go, it's a case of what is it being used for or what is it potentially being used for while South Tipperary General Hospital while we all know is one of the most overcrowded situations in Ireland"
