Readers' Blog: Literally paying the price of poor decisions
When the Government sold the National Lottery licence five years ago, for €405m, the justification was that the money was needed to construct the National Children’s Hospital, which, at that time, was estimated would cost €600m.
The estimate now is €1.5bn and expected to be €2bn. In public procurement, no-one is held to account. It is outrageous that this latest estimate is almost three times that quoted five years ago.
