Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 February 2021

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement

1:00 pm

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To recap, a project is in place that was originally estimated to cost €650 million. In December 2018, the Government approved an investment decision of €1.433 billion. Those costs appear to have spiralled to the extent that it has been suggested that expenditure may reach anything up to €2 billion. I accept that the board is certain that a report will be furnished next month but we are quite a bit into the lifetime of this contract. Can the witnesses give a sense, say, to the nearest hundred thousand euro, of what the overall cost of this project will be?

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