Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Public Accounts Committee
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017
9:00 am
Mr. Jim Breslin:
There are two elements to that. One is, often the design is contractually committed. Whereas the overall spending on the project might not be a contractual commitment, one would have entered into an arrangement with the design team. So in that situation one is continuing.
In any event, the design team costs or the design costs, as a percentage of the overall project, can be quite modest. In that situation one can allow projects to move ahead through that stage without a big impact on capital spending.
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