Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 May 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
9:30 am
Mr. David Gunning:
Let me clarify. The 15% withholding is a measure open to the development board in the situation where the contractor has not provided the programme. As I mentioned earlier, this is one of the options currently on the table for us to consider, but there is a process. The ER has written to the contractor. The contractor needs to be given some time to respond. We need to then decide whether there is going to be an input from it, and then we make a decision. As I said, that type of decision is imminent. We are not at that point yet.