Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 5: Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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One of my colleagues asked about the metro. The range was between €7 billion and €23 billion. How is a value for money analysis done on something like that? I asked about the national maternity hospital project. Was a range considered there, or is one being considered? I ask that because we keep being told we will learn lessons from the national paediatric hospital, the cost of which keeps on moving up. There were serious mistakes made with the tendering process and a lack of real rigour when it came to the tendering phase.
How does the Department evaluate something as being between €7 billion and €23 billion? Was there the same range in the case of the national maternity hospital?