Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is pertinent now that when the Government decides not to curb inflation in any shape or form - there is no money tree and there is little it can do - the costs of these projects grow exponentially. The very same applies to them. The contract is indexed, end of story. We will be way over and above that. I cannot say whose fault it is, but many lessons need to be learned. Our national children's hospital will be looked at throughout the world as the template for how not to do things.