Ms Tracey Conroy:

A number of reviews were undertaken in the context of even getting to the report in November to the HSE and the Department. I will ask Mr. Pollock to speak on the detail of this but, as part of the submission of that report, the build board commissioned external reviews from both Mazars and AECOM regarding both the process of the guaranteed maximum price and benchmarking the costs of the hospital with those of other hospitals internationally. The HSE also commissioned some external advice to feed into its examination of the options presented by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board to the HSE and the Department. Due to the two-stage nature of the tendering process, the development board had a number of options which it considered. On the move to phase B, it could have decided the other option was not to move to phase B with the current contractor and to retender. The third option was to use an overall different means of contracting the project.