Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 June 2022
Public Accounts Committee
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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The claims are being made. Some 81% are about extension of time. On the other side of that, not bringing the project in on time incurs a penalty. I find it quite difficult to get my head around that, that there is in the contract, rightly, a penalty for not bringing the project in on time but, at the same time, the value of 81% of the claims is to do with the extension of time. Those two things do not correlate - for me, anyway.