Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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As the Committee of Public Accounts, an amount of our work involves taking a retrospective view in respect of best practice, value for money and efficiencies in contractual arrangements in various sectors. Is Mr. Tierney saying that the Department of Health engaged in a contract, the outworking of which will reach billions of euro in public expenditure, but the Department does not have an opinion in retrospect on whether that contract was the best manner in which to deliver this project?