Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 March 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
Mr. Robert Watt:
Nobody is going to say the project has worked out according to plan.
That is clearly not the case; this has not worked out. The Government was given a view as to how much it would cost in spring 2017 and it is now €400 million more than the Government was told. Clearly that is not a tenable position.
I am not being in any way evasive here because we are having a debate and I do not know the answer to this. I do not think any of us should believe an alternative lump-sum contract or some version of that would necessarily have built this project more cheaply. Maybe it would have done, but I am not-----
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