Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement

9:00 am

Mr. Robert Watt:

No. In 2012 a Government decision was made based on the tender which we understood was an approximate bill of quantities of 95%. It was our understanding at the time that there was a figure for the hospital that was higher than that which had been put out there. It was €980 million. That was our understanding of what was happening. It is not fair to suggest we are being passive. The contrary is the case. It was our understanding - it is fair under the public spending code - that the sanctioning authority was managing the project, given the Government decision in the spring of 2017.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.