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 Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Does the Department have a weekly management meeting? Do Mr. Watt and his civil servants sit down with the Minister and Ministers of State and go through all of the pertinent financial and other issues related to the Department? This is such a significant project in the Irish context and is so important to the country. It is also such an expensive project, even at the old price, especially when one considers that the site was donated and we did not even have to buy the land. In that context, how frequently did the Department discuss the project, in general terms, at its management meetings? How frequently did the Department discuss the overall capital plan in the run-up to the budget? Was there a discussion of the quality of that plan and the figures contained therein, particularly for very large projects like the children's hospital?

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