Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 May 2025

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. David Gunning:

Correct. The public work contract is the contract we are using on this project. It is the contract approved by the Department of public expenditure and it is what is used on the vast majority of public works in Ireland. It has stages in it in terms of disputes and claims and how these are managed. If the contractor feels there is a delay event or a compensation event, they fill out a claim under clause 10.3 of the contract and that claim has to be processed. There are a number of stages where the claim can be either validated and agreed to or moved on to another stage. I am not going to go through it now. From that initial stage, it is presented to the employer's representative, who is the impartial independent reviewer of these things. So far, she has identified that BAM is entitled to 6% of what it is claiming as its entitlements.

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