Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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I will make one observation of which I want people to take account for a moment. We need to invite the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the management and control of major capital projects, including the children's hospital. If we write to him specifically on the children's hospital, he is utterly within his rights to say he is not the Accounting Officer in respect of that project. I do not want to write a letter to which we are guaranteed a refusal. It is not good for the committee to be making a request that we know will be refused. If we frame the request as being in respect of major Government contracts, for which he has a responsibility, we may have a better result.