Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013

10:00 am

Mr. Tom Costello:

Yes, but the site had been identified and the design team was instructed to design a hospital. The square footage of the hospital we are now building is quite similar to what was available at the Mater Hospital; therefore, the scope of the project was always defined. It was a defined site. The lesson we have learned is, as Mr. Pollock said, that before we appoint a design team or engage in any expenditure on behalf of the State, we need to stress-test the decision making. If we were to roll back six or seven years, the answer to the question of whether making sure all of the stress-testing was done before proceeding was the right thing to do is probably "Yes". We are reinforcing it, but that was our first step.

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