Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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We accept that. Those are the tools that they were handed. What the opening statement and what Mr. Gunning has just confirmed to me tells me that the taxpayer, the Government, the State and the board, and Mr. Gunning is the representative of the Oireachtas and the public there, does not have the necessary levers built into this contract to levy penalties against the carry-on that has gone on on that site where less than half the workers who should have been there were there? Mr. Gunning said in his opening statement that delays have driven inflation-----