Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. Derek Tierney:
One of the primary reasons is that the contract that was signed does not align with the sanctioned budget. There are a number of provisions and entitlements to the contractor within the contract which were never catered for in the original budget so they will have to be accounted for. They include a recovery of inflation over 4%-----