Results 30,721-30,740 of 40,897 for speaker:Simon Coveney
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: Yesterday, the Government published the report of the independent review of escalation of costs for the national children's hospital carried out by PwC, and it fully accepts its recommendations. This project is very important for Irish children for generations to come. It is finally under construction and the Connolly urgent care centre element of the project is on target to open this...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: We need to understand the systems failures that allowed that to happen and to ensure that they are not repeated. That is why the Government is committed and has already started the process of looking at how complex and large capital projects are managed from a procurement perspective-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: -----and a structural perspective to ensure that estimates that we have at the start of projects such as this turn out to be accurate at a later stage when final decisions are made on funding.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: The Government had a choice to make last December either to proceed with the project, knowing the full cost, to retender, which would probably have cost more in the end-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: -----or not to build the project.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: Nobody is suggesting that we can build this hospital for less than it currently costs-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: -----but there are certainly lessons to learn that the Government needs to act on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: The Minister for Health is before a committee as we speak answering questions on whatever people want to ask him. Senior Ministers have not gone missing. I do not have the detail on the May 2017 letter the Deputy refers to but I can get that for him. I think the public does want to understand what went wrong here. From my initial reading of this report the explanation is pretty clear....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: There were not and we need to learn lessons from that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: Both Ministers will be coming to Cabinet within a month and I presume will come to this House too-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: -----with an implementation plan for all of the recommendations of this report. That is what Government does, it learns lessons.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: It is not true to say that the mistakes that were made in this project have been repeated over and over with other projects. The Deputy is trying to link it with other projects that he does not even know the detail of in respect of the national broadband plan, for example.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: I do not know what the final cost is so I do not know how the Deputy does-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: -----because there has not been a Government decision on it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: The process has not concluded but the Opposition is already trying to turn it into a political football.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: If we consider projects that have been completed-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: -----from the N17, the Gort to Tuam bypass, Arklow to Rathnew bypass, the north docklands sewerage scheme and the Phoenix Park tunnel, these are all projects that were completed on time and on budget.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: This Government, unlike Deputy Martin's, has a pretty good record actually-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: -----of delivering projects on time and on budget.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)
Simon Coveney: This is an exception to that and that is why we have asked PwC to look at it in detail and we are factoring in the lessons learned from that report-----