Ms Tracey Conroy:

I do not accept that there was a hands-off approach on the part of senior people involved in the project. There has been tight governance, management and oversight of the project. We are gravely concerned about the overruns. We will continue to seek assurances from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board reporting up through the governance structures that we have outlined, that is, through the children's hospital project and programme, CHP&P, steering group and the board. There are lessons to be learned. Some of them have already been identified. The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board report on the guaranteed maximum price process concluded that a more robust early warning process during the design development phase was required. It is clear that with a number of the capital project's fundamental systems there were some issues relating to the cost and we are-----