Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To answer the first question, I will take the appropriate action on who are the appropriate people to oversee the project when I get the PwC report. I did not come here today to create headlines on how I will react when I get the report. I will get it, read it, publish it and take very swift action on what changes, if any, I believe are needed at that time.

With regard to the complete cost of the project, I will be informed by the PwC report and the various work that is ongoing. The board has received a very clear message from me, delivered on behalf of the Government, that we are well past the outer limits of what the country can manage to spend on the hospital.