Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The PwC report on the national children's hospital is explicitly clear that of the nine organisations interviewed during the process, not one of them included Connolly for Kids Hospital or any of the senior clinicians who have for years campaigned and forensically deconstructed the arguments for locating the hospital on the site of St. James's Hospital. There was not a single interview with the tens of thousands of families of sick children. What is most revealing and worrying about the PwC report is the paragraph which states:

We have considered and agree with recommendations made by Mazars in their reports relating to cost escalation and governance. The recommendations that we have set out below in this report do not replace those...

Effectively, we have paid in excess of €600,000 to find out what we already knew.

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