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 can assure the Deputy and members of the committee that we are acutely aware of the value of these public moneys. I guess we need to look at it as follows. With this level of claims we need an appropriate response and the return on the investment has got to be significant, we have got to get value from the investments that we make here. We are subject, obviously, to all the normal procurement rules. So all the moneys that we spend have got to be tendered publicly and, therefore, we get the benefit of the value that comes through that. We are also managing the procurement process very, very closely in terms of case management, in terms of the decision-making that happens on each one of these cases. So there is a full and complete process. There are individuals teams allocated to each particular challenge, each particular claim and we are working these like a military operation from start to finish.

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