Mr. Robert Watt:

I said there were lessons to be learned from what happened with this and other projects. Clearly, it is not satisfactory that the Government was told in spring 2017 that a project would cost X but it transpired that it would cost significantly more. It is obviously unsatisfactory and nobody is happy with it. All I say to the Deputy is based on the information I received when we were notified of this. Neither I nor anybody on this committee would work on another basis when being told of a serious problem or issue where the Minister was notified and he told us. We asked for a report as that is what we must do. It does not have to be a long report. It can be a page saying the position is "X", and on foot of the report, colleagues in the relevant section of our Department met officials from the Department of Health and we put in a detailed submission to the Minister, Deputy Donohoe.