Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital

Mr. David Gunning:

It is not a question of acceptance. Once claims are submitted and substantiated, there is a process that must be gone through. That is how the process works. It works through the various steps from the determination by the employers' representative. If a claim is not accepted by the contractor or by either party at that point, it goes to the project board, which is a formal meeting of representatives from both organisations under the chairmanship of the standing conciliator currently. If it is not accepted there, it is referred to conciliation. If it is not accepted in conciliation, the next stop is the High Court. That is the process set out in the contract. We have many conciliations, many claims currently going through that process.

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