Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 February 2021

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement

1:00 pm

Mr. David Gunning:

I will deal with that. As an entity, the legal fees in 2018 were €120,000, in 2019 they were €691,000 and in 2020 they were €466,000. The last figure does not include the costs that we incurred for our High Court case, for a particular reason.

I wish to put down a marker. As we look forward and these claims and the various dispute mechanisms come into play, there will be a significant increase in what I would call our claims defence expenditure. In the face of a €300 million challenge by the contractor, we will spend a considerable amount of money on legal fees and specialist advisers to defend those claims. That is in the plan we have submitted to the Minister.

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