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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: It is 22 months since the year end.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General is doing the accounts for 2013 now and we will have them shortly. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Technically, the board is carrying the can. I do not mean it is financially carrying the can but that it was in situwhen this came to pass. Given that it has an opportunity to safeguard the assets, corporate governance involves assessed risks. I am sure it is a fundamental element of the board's macro considerations in regard to its handling of the project. Mr. Pollock has already...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: By the time the planning process is complete, which the board hopes will be at the end of December 2015, what investment will have been made other than the €40 million set out in the accounts up to the end of 2012? How much extra will be at play from the taxpayer's point of view by the time of the expected planning decision?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Is that in addition to the aforementioned €40 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: So we might be looking at an expenditure of €72 million on the project before we get planning approval, including the Mater site.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: We are in the same range of spending as we were on the Mater site. We know that went wrong and we will not revisit that, but we are in the same range of funding and requirements before we get to the next planning decision. I know there are no certainties in this world, but most businesses take out some sort of insurance or indemnity against these types of risk. Has the board considered...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Is there any comeback against the design teams? I realise they are not entering into a no-foal-no-fee arrangement. They are not going to work for nothing if planning does not work out. Nobody will do that, but there should be some element of comeback.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: I am getting the impression - maybe this is the end of it - that essentially this is a committee established by a Minister, full stop.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: It is like a committee. I am just trying to pin it down. It is like a committee and of course it will do its best and conform to-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Sorry, Chairman. I want to know the structure of the organisation I am dealing with.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: They should not be here if they cannot answer the question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: I must protest. This is the first time you and I have had to have this discussion. I listened to somebody talk for an hour. I have been talking for five minutes and you are telling me it is dragging on. I ask you not to go there. I would say the same to my own colleague if he was in the chair, if he stopped me after a few minutes. Perhaps some people do not understand the level-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: You can see the line I am opening up. I just want to know who is responsible for the members of the board. That is all I am asking. Who is legally responsible? Is it the Minister? I have no problem if I am told it is. However, I have not got that simple answer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: The witnesses might send us a note, based on the statutory instrument.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General separately - he does not have to answer it today - to give us a note on how many bodies within our remit and within his remit are bodies corporate under the 1961 legislation, so that we can know the nature of an organisation. Are there many of these?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit them all?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: An informal committee. There is the impairment issue with regard to €40 million of assets in the balance sheet at the end of 2012 in the accounts we are talking about. The board says in its report that it is looking at the impairment situation. The Comptroller and Auditor General referred to the uncertainty of that matter in his report. Does the board have an estimated figure at...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Will the Comptroller and Auditor General have to restate the 2012 accounts, or will he make the note-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: When the Comptroller and Auditor General comes to do the 2013 accounts, an asset that was worth €40 million will now be worth €6 million. For comparative purposes, will the Comptroller and Auditor General have to restate the 2012 accounts?