Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. David Gunning:

I will deal with that question. The claims process continues. There is a moratorium currently in place, but claims are being received. Those claims are still being determined by the employer’s representative. The parked phases follow that; the conciliations adjudications and High Court are parked. The reason for that was to allow both our team and the BAM team to focus on the delivery. As the Deputy can imagine, as the claims process, the defence of claims, goes from one forum to another, for instance, from conciliation to the High Court, that puts it into a different place. It is difficult for us to call when that would be complete. It is not unusual in public sector projects like this that the claims go on past the life of the substantial completion, in this case the completion of the hospital. I expect that the hospital may well be completed and that some of the analysis and the discussions on claims will continue for some time after that. That would be my assessment and that is not unusual in some of these public sector projects.

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