Questions are being raised at the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) about the €120,000 cost for a jobs website for Children’s Health Ireland (CHI). CHI is responsible for three Dublin paediatric hospitals and is the client for the new National Children’s Hospital, where there have been major construction cost overruns. Read MoreComptroller and Auditor General Seamus McCarthy said a procurement process at CHI had been non-compliant with tendering requirements. He suggested that some of the money was used to prepare the principals for their appearances before the Public Accounts Committee. The clerk of the committee would be asked to write to Children’s Health Ireland to seek greater clarity, he said.

Source: Irish Independent March 23, 2021 11:11 UTC