Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I presume that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is kept in the loop on this. Have the Department officials been provided with the business case for the proposed project? Has the external assurance process, required under the public spending code, happened? I think they are called decision gates and it would be quite useful to know what they are. Are we likely to see, for example, the HSE putting together a board like the National Pediatric Hospital Development Board as a subset? How is it going to be managed? We can keep on talking about learning lessons but there is something live at the moment and we need to be watching this process to make sure it is managed in a way that is not as frustrating as the children's hospital.