Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These are completely different projects. The hospital in Tallaght and some of the other hospital projects that have been mentioned this evening are completely different in complexity, scale and process from the national children's hospital. It is like comparing the experience in building a road to the experience of building a metro. They might be in the same policy area but they are very different projects in scale.

Regarding the institutional learning that exists in my Department and in the Department of Health, it has been successful in delivering many other important projects I have mentioned. We are acknowledging very clearly in respect of this project that there are clear lessons for projects of this scale. We acknowledged all of that yesterday, as well as what we are going to do to address it.

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