Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I hope I will not repeat some earlier questions. I asked the Taoiseach a couple of questions yesterday but I did not get answers. First, under this two-phase approach did the Minister for Health not realise it in February 2017? That was when there was €950 million for the hospital, €100 million for IT and €100 million for equipment. Anybody I have spoken to who has expertise in this area has said that alarm bells should have been ringing. It should not have waited until August 2018 for the Minister to realise he had a problem. That is when the problem became clear. Why is it that he did not become aware of it at that time? That was a fatal mistake in the two-phase process. The €100 million for IT and €100 million for technology were clearly just figures plucked from the air. Why did the process not stop then to start getting it right?

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