Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

When parliamentarians, including the members of this committee, business people and so forth, receive the budget documentation, they do not expect it to be exactly correct because it is a forecast. People understand that, but the scale of the change in the case of the national children's hospital to what had previously been predicted just a short period after the budget was announced has genuinely stunned and worried them. Does Mr. Watt agree that it has put a big question mark over the competence of the Government and the public service to produce reliable information on cost profiles?