It has been reported a former Dublin city manager has been approached as part of the process of choosing a site for the National Children's Hospital.
John Fitzgerald has said that he's not involved "at the moment", but is not ruling out advising the Government on the matter.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny told the Dáil yesterday that the Government would make a final decision on the location of the new National Children's Hospital within the next two weeks.
He said the Government would be guided by a report from an expert group, chaired by the businessman Frank Dolphin.
It then emerged last night that the Taoiseach and Tánaiste have already been given an assessment of what's in the Dolphin report, having been briefed on its contents last June.
Today, it was claimed that Mr Fitzgerald has been the subject of an informal approach on the issue.
He is a former Dublin city manager, and also headed up the Limerick regeneration project.
An Bord Pleanála rejected the Mater Hospital in Dublin city centre as a location for the new facility earlier this year, and at this stage it has been reported that sites in Blanchardstown and St James are frontrunners for the revised project.