Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 December 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
9:30 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
As I mentioned, the HSE is responsible for delivering on the projects. There are many different projects and many projects have been delivered. I cannot comment on the project in Mayo to which the Deputy referred. I do not know the details. The reality of building any project is that there is a delay and it takes a number of years. We are always focused on trying to accelerate project delivery because it is not satisfactory. It takes time, however, from conception and design to procurement and then actual delivery. It depends on scale. The challenge for society in terms of how quickly it takes us to build public projects is a wider issue.
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