Civil servant who failed to reveal children's hospital budget crisis to snub PAC grilling

The senior civil servant who Government says failed to reveal the children's hospital budget crisis, despite sitting on its board, will snub a planned public grilling on the scandal.

The State's chief procurement officer will snub demands to explain his role in the children's hospital costs crisis by refusing to attend a Dail meeting on Thursday.

The Department of Public Expenditure's head of procurement Paul Quinn will not attend a crunch meeting of the Dail's public accounts committee on the scandal despite a formal request to do so.