Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. David Gunning:

I would draw a distinction. If someone is on a social welfare scheme, they are not on the site, they are not working and they are not engaged by the contractor. Our focus is on people who are on-site and working, and we have a very good process in place in terms of monitoring what happens in those circumstances. What happens outside, or within the contractors and the layers of subcontractors in terms of what happened, is not an area we have been looking at. We have focused on people working on the site. That is a contractual matter.