Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On the capital design consultancy expenditure for 2020, €34.749 million was spent on non-capital estates expenditure on external consultancy related to €833 million of capital projects. In order to get faster delivery on projects, for instance the emergency department, ED, in University Hospital Galway or in Mayo University Hospital, why are we not using external consultancies to deliver on these projects? If you look at detailed appraisal, planning and design, appointment of project managers, procurement, construction commissioning, we are getting timelines of over 60 months to deliver projects.