Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 March 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:30 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
As I understand it, that is the total value the contractor has put on the claims and given evidence for. There are another 300 claims that a value has not yet been put on. Of the €650 million, approximately €509 million has gone through the employer's representative and he - or she, I think it is - has made a determination one way or the other.
If you go over to the column there, "Contractor Claimed Amount Referred to Dispute", and if go down that, you can see the first value there is €336 million. Of the €509 million that has been determined by the ER, €336 million of it is in "Contractor only, ER Determined Claims that are disputed and referred to Project Board and Conciliation". There is €336 million at that stage of the process. You have €45 million "disputed and referred to the High Court".
It is quite difficult to follow through this information but the total amount of it that is in dispute is €512 million. I cannot even understand how €512 million can be in dispute when the ER determined is €509 million. That has defeated me, I am afraid.
Then there are other categories as well there.
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