Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 February 2019

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

 

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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With respect to the Minister, I know he is not going to throw his colleague under the bus, but it was also his job to keep him informed and to let him know of this emerging issue. The Minister brought a budget into the House without any information in his Department of a very significant escalation in the cost of the national children's hospital. The Minister was in the dark.