Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses are very welcome. We are looking at process and value for money, which is the remit of the committee. One of the things that creates costs in any project is a failure to design it and nail things down at a very early stage. Reading any documentation or report on this, one would have to say that it is almost entirely because of the process that we face such significant overruns. That is how it reads to me. The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board was set up in about 2013. It included individual expertise in the clinical, construction and procurement areas. Mr. Quinn brought that expertise. He was on the board from the beginning.