Aidan Davitt (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State has seen the outline of the Commencement matter. I know that the Minister is scheduled to come before us after lunch today to discuss the national children's hospital. I do not know whether he will come in person or whether the Minister of State, Deputy Daly, will deputise again at that stage. He might enlighten us in this regard if possible. As we know, there is a cost review of this project ongoing at a cost of just under €500,000. We are told the review will be carried out relatively quickly and that we could press pause on the project while the review is ongoing because there has not been much more than the base works and groundworks completed on the site so far. That is the general gist of the Commencement matter, as the Minister of State can see.