Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I was first elected to the Dáil in 2011. Shortly thereafter - I think in 2012 - the figure for the hospital project, admittedly on the Mater hospital site, was €450 million. Hindsight allowed me to profile the cost of T2 at Dublin Airport which Mr. Watt mentioned. It was estimated to cost €690 million, but with extra costs for fit-out and so on, the project came in at a cost of €960 million. The cost of the national children's hospital was pitched at €450 million. I often ask myself how we came up with the figure, given the cost of the T2 project that had only recently finished at the time and which was probably far less complex. Did the expenditure profile document provided not set off alarm bells?