Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----cost of building the hospital. When the estimate was corrected, there was a dramatic change in the overall predicted and estimated cost of delivering the hospital. When we got clarity on the figure, the Minister brought a series of recommendations to the Government to make a decision on to how to proceed. I think he made the right decision to do that. What Deputy Wallace is focusing on, understandably, is how we got there, how we learn lessons from that and how we change systems in the future for project management or tendering processes for big projects such as this one. The Government is listening-----

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