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:

The Deputy is absolutely right. The implementation cost for the PwC recommendations and the claims defence cost is estimated at approximately €27 million, which is additional to the approved amount of €1.433 million. The Deputy is right that there are additional costs, including the ones I have mentioned, namely, inflation and others. Those were clearly signalled in the PwC report. Mr. Devine has mentioned provisional sums, to which the PwC report referred. The report stated that we must watch that area because there may not be enough in the budget. We have already talked about equipping and we know that we are in the ballpark-----