Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health
Mr. Derek Tierney:
I will take that question. I thank the Deputy. It is on the record of another committee that the board engaged with the contractor for a period during a moratorium on claims. The objective of that moratorium was to park all claims and an adversarial engagement on how those claims might resolve. The essence of the moratorium was to try to get time certainty. That is what we are all interested in. Time equals money. This was against a backdrop where the contractor had not provided a compliant programme under the contract. That is still outstanding. That moratorium ended two or three months ago and the contract is being administered by the board.
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