Mr. David Moloney:

There are a couple of things in that. I thank the Deputy for her question. On an ongoing basis we monitor the spend across government. Where we see issues, we can get involved. For example, in relation to the national children's hospital, we were involved at quite an early stage in the escalation of costs in that over the years. We do that as part of our overall Vote monitoring, on an ongoing basis.

The other piece around that is that one of the things we want the accelerating infrastructure task force reports to do is to identify how we can unblock some of the things that causes delays. Costs are an issue for any project. Obviously for the children's hospital there were elements of insufficient design at an early stage and other things.

However, as we know, for many projects, there are also planning, regulatory and consent process delays so we are looking at that. We are looking to remove any roadblocks we can with a view to taking away the causes of those escalating costs.