Minister accused of ‘tone deaf’ defence of €127k bike shed at Kerry hospital

Minister Helen McEntee said hospitals have to ‘stick to’ budgets that are set. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA

A €127,000 bike shed at a Kerry hospital “went through proper guidelines”, the defence minister has said.

Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty accused the Government of being “serial wasters of public money” as he criticised the expenditure being spent on a bike shed at University Hospital Kerry.