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

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is correct. An email of 20 November from Mr. David Moloney offers thanks for material provided and continues, "As you know in the past we voiced serious concerns in relation to the governance of the Children's Hospital project, and were assured that the arrangements in place were sufficiently robust." The Department is highlighting the fact that it had concerns regarding governance. When the Department of Health contacted Mr. Watt's Department desperately trying to raise concerns about cost issues, did alarm bells not ring in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform? Did Mr. Watt's Department not realise that as it was being contacted by the Department of Health on the matter, it should see what was going on? Did alarm bells go off?

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