Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 May 2019
Public Accounts Committee
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Mr. Quinn has seen it all. He saw what the board did or did not do. He saw all the failures about which we now know, as a result of the PwC and Mazars reports. We now have the benefit of hindsight. Mr. Quinn may not have had that at the time. Does he believe, in the context of his own membership of the board, that there may have been failings on his part, given that he was also head of the OGP? There has been a lot of public commentary on that. We are tasked with asking the hard questions of public servants when they come before us. I am not giving an opinion. I am asking for Mr. Quinn's perspective. With the benefit of hindsight, having seen the two reports I have mentioned and given that the hospital project has gone way over budget, does Mr. Quinn, who sat on the board and who has procurement expertise, see any failings on his part in respect of his membership of the board and his role as the head of the OGP?
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