Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 January 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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This all sounds mad. One would not build an extension to the back of one's house without doing the sums. It is almost as if there is a presumption that the money will be found. One would not build something without a greater degree of certainty than appears to have been the case here. We now have to go off and procure a specialist firm to look at this in detail in retrospect, even before the project really gets under way. What are the terms of reference for that PwC project?