Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

11:20 am

Mr. John Pollock:

I was looking at the 2012 accounts. The previous sheet sets out that there was a €100,000 fee to An Bord Pleanála, a planning consultation fee of €4,500, and the board made a costs ruling at the end of €128,000. Legal counsel had to be procured for the oral hearing and three people were retained totalling €440,000. The O'Connell-Mahon, project business services team and project management team fees in respect of the Bord Pleanála hearing were €890,000. Communications consultants received €26,000 and there was some ICT support in respect of attending at the hearing to ensure we had the proper ICT facilities of just over €2,500. Those are the main headlines and the total was approximately €1.6 million.