John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have no doubt about that but I would seriously question that an official from the Minister's Department would not see the political or budgetary consequences of what was going on and the fact that there seemed to be no real engagement on the overrun with the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Health. It raises the question as to how Government managed this system of expenditure on the children's hospital. It shows up many weaknesses.