Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Public Accounts Committee
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Paul Quinn:
Not necessarily. The same issues could arise in a standard tender. In a standard tender, if there are design deficiencies or information gaps, it goes to market, gets priced up and the project proceeds, but we end up with claims arising over the life cycle of the project. One of the challenges of this process is that it brought all this to a head, which to some degree is a positive. In most normal projects, it ends up with all these claims emerging. Contractors will come forward and say something was not in the drawings that is being sought now, and a claim emerges.
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