Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I am sharing time with Deputy Eamon Ryan. It is quite clear that what we have here is a most shocking failure of governance and an inability to protect the public purse on the part of the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure and Reform, under their respective Ministers. It is simply not credible that the Minister for Health did not tell his colleagues for over two months that there was this looming problem of a significant overspend with the hospital. He knew at that stage that it was almost €400 million.

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