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

11:30 am

Mr. John Pollock:

They are involved. First, our contract is with BDP and O'Connell Mahon. They are supporting local consultants and are needed. In regard to the Mater site, O'Connell Mahon were not the lead architects, they were managed by a project management services team who, in turn, reported to a business services team. That was the way the project was procured. O'Connell Mahon were not the lead on it. They were managed by a project management services which, in turn, reported to a business services team. In terms of the communications, I do not know who made the decisions or what was said.