Sir, – Regarding the controversy surrounding the children’s hospital project (“External investigators denied access to review children’s hospital site for six weeks”, News, July 18th), the advice of the great bard William Shakespeare a few centuries ago is still pertinent and salutary:
“When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
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Then we must rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability,
What do we then but draw anew the model
In fewer offices, or at last desist
To build at all?” (Henry IV, Part 2, Act 1, Scene 3) – Yours, etc,
TOM KENNEDY,
Dublin 6.
