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. David O'Brien:

I will explain. The process was at a very preliminary stage then. They were working through how this would be delivered. One must consider the context. September 2013 was the first time that we saw any growth in activity in the construction sector since May 2007, when the financial crisis hit. We had a very fragile construction sector at that time. The board had very real concerns about how a project of this scale would be delivered. Did anyone have the capacity to deliver it? As such, various approaches were looked at.

In May 2014, they issued us a note with preliminary faults.

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