Kieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The national children's hospital and BAM were supposed to have agreed, under the tender document, a guaranteed maximum price by June 2018. That did not happen until six months later, so it was to be ten months and it overran to nearly 16 months. The overrun was of the order of 33% of the cost, or €191 million, exclusive of VAT. As I am assuming VAT is at 13.5%, the gross overrun is well over €200 million at about €217 million.

Is it not fair to say that the monitoring system in the Department should have facilitated picking up that level of overspend of nearly one third-----