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

Mr. Robert Watt:

It was locked down in relation to the 2019 allocation at the time that we were setting out the budget. Of course, there were discussions about capital allocations but the adjustment to the capital envelope for 2019 compared with what would have been in previous documentation in respect of the allocation for the year was not significant. There was more money put in for housing, over €100 million, because there were various issues relating to serviced sites and so on that were included as part of the negotiations. There were other issues too but I do not think that the capital allocation was very different from what we expected it to be some months before the budget discussions took place.

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