Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Many of these capital projects go wrong from the beginning and are almost designed to go wrong in not having clear objectives and outcomes, and measurement is almost impossible. Are we saying through this Bill that there would be a requirement to provide information on project objectives, on the real outcomes and on the outputs from the project measured against those objectives? Would the level and type of information vary according to the size of the capital project, for example, if you were looking at projects in excess of €500 million? Given that, from the date this legislation is implemented, we are going to be looking back on projects, I am trying to understand whether the Department or the Government knowing we are going to be doing this analysis will force them into better or more intelligent thinking at the beginning of projects so that we do not end up with overruns such as the national broadband plan at 440%, the national children's hospital at 135% and the Luas line at 289%. It seems the thought has not gone into these projects from the beginning. Will this Bill be able to address any of that?