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:

I characterise it that, from the point the Government was asked to decide, in spring 2017, when the cost was €980 million, to where we are now is when the project did not develop in line with what was expected.

That is absolutely legitimate and that is the source of a lot of the debate and discussion. There are reasons for that including the mis-measurement of the bill of quantities, the value OF engineering savings that were not secured and there was some design scope, which can happen with the scale of the contract and other issues. That is the question. The people on the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board know and they have set it out and the documentation is going to be available-----

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