Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

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

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

Yes. My colleagues on the development board can speak for themselves but I think they would have felt the weight of the challenge through the process both from the Department and the HSE. Over the course of the €61 million in cost escalation up to the €450 million, we have had very frank and challenging conversations with the development board. I will say that what PwC says is that major construction projects constitute a field in and of themselves. Whereas I was challenging the board on the cost issues, what we were not able to bring to bear was extra insight above the technical skills in the development board that would have been able to unpick why issues were happening and how systems could have been improved.

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