Kieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will take a slightly different perspective. We have concentrated a lot of the time between August 2018 and when it was approved in December. I want to go back before that as that is only a manifestation of the problems that arose well before then. I want to examine the sequence.

I first refer to the derogation. When did the application for the derogation come in, that there would be a different approach? This is a change from a detailed once-off tendering process to being a two-stage process where underground was detailed. Has underground come in on budget? How much did this cost? Overground was preliminary in design, and much of the detail in that was published in a press release published by the National Children's Hospital Development Board on its website on the same day it was approved by Cabinet. The board went into great detail. When did this come in? How was it approved? Was a specific type of alternative tendering process pursued? Who signed off on it? Was there any further follow-up in the application of that tendering process?