Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A decision was taken by the Government to have an external review and the PwC report was commissioned by the HSE. I will ask the Secretary General to deal with the Deputy's specific question to which I do not have an answer. The Deputy made a point about not finding out about the cost overrun until this late stage. I must refer her to the Mazars report that points out the two-stage procurement process exposed a cost overrun at an early stage of the project whereby with traditional procurement models we would not have found out until after the actual overrun had occurred. We now know, at a fairly early stage in the project, about a projected overrun, which allows us to focus on what we do collectively to try to rein it in.

The Secretary General will speak to the briefing note that he circulated. The Deputy can correct me if I am wrong but she is asking when I knew about the specific cost overruns.