IRISH ACCOUNTANTS SAY THEY CAN MAKE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT MORE EFFICIENT, IN WAKE OF NEW HOSPITAL SCANDAL
February 1st, 2019
Few issues give Irish politicians as much grief as the health service. Perennial budget overruns and waiting lists have ruined several ministerial careers. But what should have been a good news story, the building of a new National Paediatric Hospital, in Dublin, has done perhaps the most damage.
The country’s young health minister Simon Harris, 32, was forced to apologise to parliament this spring for not promptly disclosing his knowledge of cost overruns. These have inflated the price to EUR1.7 billion from the EUR600 million agreed by government with the ...
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