Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)

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

We use the analogy of building a house or getting an extension. The lowest bidder was chosen. It was the lowest bid by €131 million and nobody asked how it could be delivered at that price. We only have to look at the Minister's statement to see the difference between the tender price and what was the guaranteed maximum price, which has turned out to be a slightly movable figure and is not guaranteed. We can see how they were all moving.

The questions are very simple. How did that happen? Most of it happened on the Minister's watch. How did we get from €630 million all in, satellite centres, VAT and everything it was supposed to be, to-----

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