Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is the rate for 2019, but we have been reading that the rate of inflation is multiples of that figure for the children's hospital project. Going back to the expertise of the Office of Public Works, the projects listed by the Minister of State in the papers are complex, wide-ranging and based all around the country, including Dublin. Is he not surprised by the rate of inflation about which he is reading for the children's hospital? It is amazing that nobody in government thought to knock on anybody's door in the OPW to ask for some advice on such a project when costs were running away?