Michael Harty (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----and undoubtedly this meeting, which is not specifically related to that, will also address the issue.

The Committee of Public Accounts also had a meeting last week about the children's hospital. Notwithstanding that Deputy Harris is the line Minister and that the Secretary General, Mr. Jim Breslin, is the Accounting Officer for the Department of Health, the committee has asked to meet officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform because that Department had a significant input into what happened in approving the additional €450 million and because the Government contracts committee for construction is under the auspices of the Department. We also now know that a Department of Public Expenditure and Reform official was also a member of the NPHDB. We are still anxious to meet with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss this issue, notwithstanding that Deputy Harris is the line Minister-----