Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 November 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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It was before Ms Denning's time, but who kept moving the goalposts? According to the then Minister in 2015, the price was going to be €40 million. Did the board move the goalposts or did the Government decide that it needed more or less out of the site? I am interested in knowing whether additional demands were made of the Courts Service to do a bigger, better and wider job. How did the figure go from €40 million to the approximately €140 million in four years, notwithstanding the precedent of the national children's hospital where the price has risen much more quickly?