Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised)
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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It is the result of the two-stage approach. The important point is that we were told that any future cost escalations were going to be the responsibility of the contractor. PwC said that was complete nonsense, and that the future cost escalations will be borne by the Irish people. Can the Minister explain why there is such a total divergence of views between the Department and the development board on the one hand in terms of what the guaranteed maximum price actually means and what PwC has just told us on the other?