Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

11:20 am

Mr. John Pollock:

One looks at the project and it obviously went through a couple of changes. Many people were involved, including Dublin City Council, planners and a business services team. There was a great deal of intelligence around that. I went back to look at the decision of An Bord Pleanála.

One of the things that came out is that they were impressed with the quality of the design, which they thought was of a high quality. However, in terms of the impact on the skyline-----