Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have spent a great deal of time today asking questions, but I am not sure any of us is the wiser apart from being told that, yet again, there was a change of governance structure. I believe the same happened with CervicalCheck, in that people moved the chairs around the table. Due to a change in governance structure, it is difficult to find out who is to blame. We have received an opening statement each from the HSE and the Department of Health as though they were acting independently of each other. It is another example of why there are too many layers even though there is no need for half of the people to be involved. It appears that, despite all of the experts, competencies, quantity surveyors, remeasurables and bills of quantities, we may as well have just handed BAM a blank cheque and told it to build us a hospital and we would take it whenever BAM was ready in 2022.