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

We had several hearings with different entities on the children's hospital. I raised this last week with the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

This change is fundamental. Value for money cannot just be about the past. If we are to learn, surely we have got to look at where there is a process failure. One of the aspects we dealt with when we had hearings here was the double tender process and what a failure that was. The idea that we cannot track this in real time is nonsensical. Granted, we have the handcuffs on insofar as our having to look for an extension of our remit but it really highlights the difficulty this committee is going to have.