'There is political accountability': Doherty defends Harris and Government's handling of children's hospital scandal

Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has defended the Minister for Health and the Government for their actions in relation to revealing details of the escalating cost of the national children’s hospital.

She also told RTE’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show that Fine Gael are “painstakingly and excruciatingly prudent and boring when it comes to the economy, we make sure that the money that we spend is absolutely value for the taxpayers’ money because we know how hard it is, we've been slow to give tax cuts, slow to reduce USC because we are so prudent which is why the economy is in state it is after eight years of recovery.”