Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The second point I would make is that the change in the character of the project from that of the transfer of the Temple Street facility to the construction of the national paediatric hospital should have triggered a complete re-appraisal of the business case for the project, to include questions around the adequacy of the site given a much greater requirement for provision of services. The point that arises is who should be doing that review given that the previous board no longer exists and the current board has a project which is forward-facing and of a different character. In order to sanction a project there is a sanctioning authority which I think in this case is the Department of Health. By definition, the onus must revert to the Department of Health in that situation.

Would that be DPER's view as well perhaps?