Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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Going over that, in Mr. Conlon's opening statement, he states that recent reforms to the public spending code were informed by a number of different reports. Mr. Conlon mentions the IMF report, where he mentioned the PwC report on the escalating costs of the national children's hospital. One of the other recommendations that were made in that report was to establish an infrastructure projects unit within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, DPER, to provide advisory services to the Minister on appraisal and selection of projects and to carry out studies of infrastructure bottlenecks, financing and evaluation of lessons learned. It was envisaged that the infrastructure projects unit would enhance the Department's role as co-ordinator and gatekeeper of the appraisal and selection process by mandating the infrastructure projects unit to be established to lead on the design and implementation of the improved business case model for the appraisal of major projects, to act as objective reviewer signing off on major projects for each business cases and a number of other things. Did that ever happen? Was that set up?