Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I raise this because the PwC report, which cost €500,000, states on page 28: "The DBC [definitive business case] overstated the completeness of the design and understated the risks". The report goes on to highlight that this "was factually incorrect and, in fact, when the DBC was approved in April 2017, the Stage 2C Design had been underway for 11 months." As well as describing it as "factually incorrect", the report said a number of other things about the definitive business case. I would like to know the cost of that business case. I said I would be precise about the words. The report said that the definitive business case "contained material errors".

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