Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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In his opening statement Mr. Conlon said the recent reforms to the public spending code were informed by a number of reports. He mentioned the IMF report and the PwC report on the escalating costs of the national children's hospital. The PwC report on the national children's hospital states that significant failures occurred during the crucial planning and budgeting stages of the project which created a situation in which the approved project could never be delivered within the financial parameters agreed. Mistakes seem to have been made very early in the process and this had significant knock-on effects for the costs later. How would the recently announced reforms have impacted the outcome in the case of the national children's hospital?