Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Then at least one knows what one is doing. It is impossible for people to understand why a design could not have been done for a project of this size. We meet departmental officials all the time now. There is a cost to this. There is a cost in cutbacks and things that people do not have now because of the mistakes that were made. Having listened to Mr. Watt, I am not convinced that the communication mechanisms are in place within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the other Departments to ensure that overruns and governance issues are not reported to the Department which will have a major impact on its budget planning. Based on what I have heard today, I am not convinced that there has been sufficient learning. I am concerned that there is a normalising of what happened.