Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On infrastructure, in fairness to Deputy Howlin, we did put some money into the opera house and put a few quid into the courthouse. He did provide a decent road to Wexford and the people from that wonderful county returned him and other Deputies to the Dáil.

The national children's hospital is an entity out to 2021. I am informed that a specific monitoring committee will be dealing with a fixed-price contract. The original price obviously was a base price I suppose. Last week I read out all the issues beyond that in terms of fit-out and other things that are clearly a cost. It is expected that when this commences there will be very specific monitoring control and that the costs the Deputy mentioned will not run out of control and hopefully it can be contained at less than the €1 billion being mentioned. I do not need to go into the reasons for having a national children's hospital but I hope and expect it will be tied down in a very disciplined way in respect of the money to deal with the specifics of the contract.

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