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

I am just wondering. We are being told that this is going to be one of the projects and that it will be closely looked at for learning lessons from other similar projects. Some will be lessons about how not to go about a tendering process. Largely it will be about that, but it would be quite useful to know if there are similar projects in other jurisdictions so we could see how that kind of thing worked and the kinds of safeguards that could be done on a phased basis rather than waiting until one gets to the very end. A lot of the delays on this, for example, were at the beginning of the contract. This is what delayed on the delivery to achieve the 2022 completion of the hospital. I do not know where we would look for similar projects in comparable jurisdictions, or whether the Department has looked for that. I believe this could be a benefit when we come to look at the overall review of this. If we are ever going to learn the lessons we have to know how other jurisdictions handle projects of this nature and not make the same mistakes again.