Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD,\u00a0 Se\u00e1n Crowe, has called the published terms of reference for the independent review into the rising costs of the National Children\u2019s Hospital outrageous, because they will stop short of determining the culpability of the overspend at an individual level.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe TD stated:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe overrun at the National Children\u2019s Hospital has been a catastrophic failure to date and people are rightly demanding answer into why there is such an enormous overspend. We need to find out why it happened, how it happened, and who is responsible.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is beyond comprehension that this Government have essentially instructed those who are conducting the independent review into the rising costs of the National Children\u2019s Hospital to stop short of determining culpability at an individual level, via the terms of reference they have drafted for the investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuite frankly this is bonkers. Nobody should be above scrutiny when it comes to the investigation into Children\u2019s Hospital overspend, including all the former and current Ministers for Health during the lifetime of this project, as well as Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hundreds of millions in overspend need to be accounted for and explained in detail.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose responsible have to be identified and there has to be consequences, if not, this review is just going through the motions and will end up an expensive whitewash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe terms of reference for the review into the overrun at the Children\u2019s Hospital must be re-written, and crucially, those who are tasked with investigating this matter must have the freedom and independence to carry out their inquiries to ultimately determine any culpability, regardless of whose door that leads them to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD,\u00a0 Se\u00e1n Crowe, has called the published terms of reference for the independent review into the rising costs of the National Children\u2019s Hospital outrageous, because they will stop short of determining the culpability of the overspend at an individual level. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe TD stated: \u201cThe overrun at the National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-hospital","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}