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:

It is important to understand that there is a process here. The first step in the process is that the claim goes to the employer's representative, which the Deputy is familiar with. The employer's representative makes a decision, which either party can accept or reject. If that is referred to the next stage and not accepted, it goes to the project board. After that, it goes to conciliation and if it is not accepted in conciliation, it may be rejected or it may end up in the High Court. The process involves that set of stages so until they come through, I would not definitively say the 466 are now done. They are not. There has been an employer's representative determination but some of them continue to the next phase and several hundred of them have been referred to conciliation. Only a small number have gone through the conciliation process.

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