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
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source
Okay. That is useful. I thank Mr. Watt. He made an interesting point earlier. He spoke about a counterfactual situation in which we were not here. He said, fairly, that different variants were possible. One was that we did not have an overrun, but another is that the hospital would have been the same price without this process. If it ended up in the second position, which is that this is the cost to build this sort of children's hospital at this time and to these specifications, would that indicate a problem with the way in which BAM tendered? Would it be an example of the lowballing about which the Taoiseach was talking?
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