Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. David Gunning:

The number of €585 million has been thrown around. There is an employer's representative in this job who analyses all claims and determines them. She has analysed 1,009 claims to date and this is her assessment. The claimed value by the contractor on those 1,009 determinations is €451 million. The amount awarded by the employer's representative over and above the GNP is €5.9 million on those 1,009 claims. There is, therefore, a claimed value of €451 million and the amount awarded was €5.9 million. That is why I said earlier that I cannot get behind this idea that there will be €585 million of claims paid to the contractor. That simply will not happen. Those are the data that have been assessed by the employer's representative, which is an independent assessor of the contractor's claims. The contractor then has the choice of whether to accept the assessment and then move it through the process that I have described a number of times. I just wanted to introduce that element to the discussion.