Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Dean Sullivan:

As it sits here today, the development board itself has flagged up issues around oversight of costs and projected costs during the last year. Mazars, the auditors of the development board, has flagged up issues around oversight, linkages and so on, so it seems entirely reasonable to me and Government has requested that we would now seek to secure definitive advice and a definitive position as to whether the structures, processes and so on that are in place within the development board are fit for purpose in the context of the very important phase we are moving into. As Ms Conway has said, it is equally important that at a higher level, we are satisfied that these-----