Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018

9:00 am

Mr. Phelim Devine:

Can we move on? At the end of 2018, the design team submitted claims to us in terms of additional services it felt it undertook, or was about to undertake, associated with the project when compared to when it tendered for the job back in 2014. The design team tendered for the job in 2014 and, through its lifescale, the job was supposed to finish in 2020 to 2021. There are entitlements for the design team on prolongation in accordance with the standard contract. We entered into a conciliation with the design team at the end of 2018. We appointed a conciliator. We stated our position and it stated its position and an agreement was made. In terms of what was agreed, the design team recovered €24.5 million, including VAT, or €19.9 million, excluding VAT. There were two categories in this. One category was variations it was entitled to as set out in the contract. These were prolongation of stages 2C and 3 up to the time of GMP and stage 4 because of the construction programme-----

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