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. David Gunning:

Under the contract, the contractor is entitled to submit claims to the value it sees and thinks it is entitled to. Whether it is time or money, it can submit those claims and we have the responsibility, through the employer's representative, of dealing with those claims. We do not control what the contractor puts in. It is up to the contractor to put in its numbers. The Deputy can see the numbers in front of him.