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:

----- see what it means for the public spending code and procurement. I have not come into this committee with my hands down by my side saying, "There's nothing to see here. There are no lessons." I have not said that. I have set out in a long contribution the issues I think this raises for public policy. They are not in any way trivial issues. If we do things differently in the future, it means it will take us longer to do projects because we will need to spend an awful lot more time and money on getting detailed designs and we will not go through a process where we have this two-stage approach. It raises fundamental issues for us in terms of how we manage projects which people here will be grappling with in the future no doubt.

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