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 Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes. What I am not hearing from Mr. Watt is that there was any failing here. The report from late August indicates the current construction budget is estimated to be "€191 million over the value notified to Government in April 2017". That is from the HSE and the Department of Health; it is their estimate of the overrun. There were details of the extra €200 million in cost claims from BAM at that point. Is there nothing wrong with that not being conveyed to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and his Department?

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