Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
1:00 pm
Mr. David Moloney:
I thank the Chairman. One of things around the national children's hospital contract is that we realise that there are a lot of lessons to be learned about the management of bespoke megaprojects. That is something that we are trying to absorb into our public spending code, into our processes, into the various gates that we have set out within that for public procurement and, in particular, for projects over €100 million. In fact the Minister is going to Government today with a set of proposals to strengthen assurance and to bring in greater expertise in relation to those megaprojects. So, we agree that there are considerable lessons to be learned and we are trying to do that.
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