Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
We are certainly seeing that. That the design omissions point appears twice gives me pause for thought. As Mr. Pollock mentioned, we are discussing very large sums of money, but is he satisfied that providing more money for design omissions is normal for a construction project? Is there no penalty for the person responsible for the design omissions? Presumably, one could use terms such as "design flaws", "issues left out" or "job not done well". The amount involved is tens of millions in this case. Does Mr. Pollock understand what I mean? We do not know who is responsible for the design omissions. That person probably has a position on a board, as there seems to be a lot of that. Design omissions pop up in two headings. Who was responsible for the omissions? What was the penalty imposed on that person? Will he or she pay? Presumably, we will pay.
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