Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

 

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Minister for Health has acknowledged that the way in which this issue developed and its consequences for the national children's hospital were significant. I was then in the position of asking whether we should go ahead with the project or not. As I look back at how this developed, the fact that we had such an independent governance structure engaged in trying to resolve this issue provided a buffer between me and the Department of Health on the matter. I still would have faced the challenge of how to go ahead with this project if I had the figures earlier.