Billy Kelleher, T.D.,Fianna Fáil , at the Dáil “debate” on the NPH, 8th November 2012, referring to the Cabinet decision of two days earlier, 6th Nov 2012 to place the NPH on the St. James’s site in inner Dublin, said

“…. The Cabinet made a decision, yet within minutes we were informed by the media that there had been a massive row at Cabinet. We were told that two Ministers, Deputy Leo Varadkar and Deputy Joan Burton, were adamant that the Blanchardstown Connolly Hospital site should have been the location.”