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
Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Who is responsible for that? Mr. Watt will say the contractor again. There are a couple of issues for people looking at this. Obviously there is the governance about which he had serious concerns, not just general governance observations or whatever but serious concerns. A number of people in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform are dedicated solely to monitoring the health budget and what is spent on health. However, nobody in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform knew what was happening even going back to 20 October 2017 where the €40 million overrun was identified. In that instance €40 million is a lot of money. How many people in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform monitor health spending?
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