Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is lost on me that this remained the right option. According to the Department's statement, the Government has approved the commissioning of three new reports. One report in particular identifies the existing oversight arrangement between the Department of Health, the HSE and the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. Last week at the committee, we had extensive discussions about the reporting structure and many words were spoken about that but we are not any the wiser as to where the buck stops because we got a series of organisational charts presented to us demonstrating various committee structures. However, one of the committees was reporting that the design committee would be on budget but as Mr. Pollock has outlined, it was revising the budget as it was going along. It is easy to always be on budget if that budget is constantly being revised but nobody set a spending limit on it.

Three reports were commissioned before any of the new reports or any of the other reports that might have been commissioned by the board. Was Ms Conroy aware that since 2011, the Department and the HSE have commissioned and paid for three separate reports on the new national children's hospital? One in particular, called the evaluation of costings for the national children's hospital, was commissioned and paid for in 2012 to 2013. Does Ms Conroy want to outline to us what was in that report?