Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement

9:00 am

Mr. Robert Watt:

This is the reality of how the procurement market and construction actually work. If we are going to have certainty on what the Government decides something is going to cost, that cost is only valid and relevant when we have a detailed design which has been pored over-----