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

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----of which €191 million is definite overspend? In summary, is it not fair to say that, first, the tendering process that was established, which was a two-stage process rather than an overall lump sum process, contributed to the weakness in the overspend that allowed a preliminary design and, second, the reporting procedures within the Department should have picked that up because if it had looked at not just what was spent to date but changes and increases in spending, that overspend would have been picked up much earlier and we would not be where we are today?

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