Ministers for Finance, Health were ‘asleep at the wheel’ over children’s hospital costs

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Calling for accountability over the spending estimates which had jumped from €650 million to €1.7 billion currently, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin asked why the Ministers did not raise “red flags” about the costs which could increase even further

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin accused Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and Minister for Health Simon Harris of being “asleep at the wheel” over the spiralling of costs for the national children’s hospital.

But replying for the Government the Tánaiste said there had already been some accountability because the chairman of the hospital board had stepped aside. The Tánaiste noted that the two Ministers had stated that they would report back to Cabinet in a month about the necessary decisions on tightening spending.He also hit out at Mr Martin’s claim that the same mistakes were being repeated in other contracts including the proposals for the national broadband plan.

Ms McDonald asked who was accountable for the “administrative incompetence, professional incompetence and political incompetence”.There was “unfortunately a process that up until late last year was still proposing that a national children’s hospital of this scale could be built for far, far less than it’s going to cost”.

 

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