Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I am struggling to understand something. The OPW sits within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform which also hosts the Office of Government Procurement in the overall management of State contracts. Mr. Buckley is saying the property arm - the OPW - does not use a contract model that provides for the contractor being compensated on an ongoing basis for construction inflation above a certain level. In the case of the national children's hospital, however, that is a key part of the contract, in the drafting of which the OPW's parent Department was clearly very involved. They are two different ways of managing contracts.