What’s the point of an inquiry hobbled from the start?

Last week, we learned that the independent review into the cost over-runs in the National Children’s Hospital has been instructed to “stop short of determining culpability at the individual level”.

It is hard to fathom how the review will do its job - to assess how the cost of the hospital has risen under successive health ministers from €650 million in 2012, to €983 million in 2017, to the current figure of €1.7 ...