Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 July 2022
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:30 am
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
That was the point on which I was going to come in. I want to link it to the ongoing conversations we have been having regarding the national paediatric hospital. Up to this point, it appears that no lessons have been learned, even from the debates we had around the signing of the contracts, which many people continue to feel will have long-term repercussions in itself. Even the fact that works were carried out on the site before the State actually signed those contracts appears dubious. It reminds me of the time when I was on the council and the majority was voting to privatise the bin services. It turned out that before a decision had even been made, the private companies had already left the bins everywhere; a decision had been made. I was struck by something when Mr. McCarthy cited the €50 million cost of a pharmacy. I imagine that the-----
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