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 way the contracts were procured in the Mater is that they were based on deliverables. There a schedule of deliverables set out in their appointments. Once the contract was terminated, in terms of the development board we had to go through a process to terminate those contracts. We needed to get advice on terminating those contracts but they were paid as per the schedules. There were some robust debates but they were not paid any compensation or anything like that.