Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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Yes, it is. I have a few question on it. I recognise the Minister has asked that the Government would be given a number of weeks to assess the report, examine the recommendations and decide how to proceed.

I would like to discuss a number of recommendations with the Minister, however. I would first of all like to go back over some old ground and set it in context. The PwC report was very clear that the establishment of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, NPHDB, put all of the eggs in one basket. If there were successes, than there was one success but if there were failures then there was one point of failure. That was the reason that the two additional monitoring groups were set up, the steering group and the programme group. We know the terms of reference but who made the decision to appoint individuals to those monitoring groups?