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:

The matter I am most interested in, and on which PwC will elucidate clearly and beneficially for all of us, is that relating to how the €983 million increased to €1.4 billion. In my estimation, a key explanatory factor for that was the gap between the preliminary design and the final design. I would like PwC to interrogate that to determine whether, even though it was a preliminary design and approximate, elements were missed that should have been caught then and how that was flagged. Should people have expected there to be a difference between stages A and B? As the difference emerged, what was the early warning system? It is in that area that the most beneficial examination will lie. PwC will be able to tell us about the learning to be achieved and any weakness in the project that has been identified.

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