Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 December 2019
Public Accounts Committee
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I accept that. That is a credible answer. I have no difficulty with the answer but the difficulty concerns where there are additional costs. We should remember the history of this project. There were additional costs, and questions were asked about when Ministers knew or did not. There was no suggestion that the Ministers had done anything wrong. Let me outline what creates suspicion and difficulties. Let us just say there are additional costs, that they have been discussed at meetings with the Minister and that a future Committee of Public Accounts is looking for notes of minutes and is told there were none, or that there was a note that was not a minute-----