Sir, – While we were planning to build our retirement home, our eldest son sat us down and explained: make a change at stage one, cost one. Make a change at stage two, cost 10. Make a change at stage three, cost 100. So get your plans clear, get a firm tender and then change nothing.
Maybe the management committees for the hospital and other infrastructure developments have an important basic business lesson to learn. – Yours, etc,
PATRICK DAVEY,
Shankill.
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Sir , – Bearing in mind the abject failure of the PAC to get to the bottom of the RTÉ/Ryan Turbidy affair, demonstrated by a lack of co-ordination in the members’ questioning of witnesses, with the same few questions being asked repeatedly and other members seemingly unable to ask any coherent or even relevant questions at all, it does not bode well for any searching or exacting examination of the children’s hospital fiasco involving the unexplained and unaccounted overspend of millions of euro of taxpayers’ money.
It seems to me that Dáil committees need competent professional chairs and training for members that will enable them to properly hold people or organisations to account. – Yours, etc,
HUGH PIERCE,
Co Kildare.