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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: Ms Hardiman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: I am sorry to rush Ms Hardiman because I have only seven and a half minutes left.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: It is just the nature of it. Does Ms Hardiman envisage an expansion of the use of the satellite buildings in Tallaght and Blanchardstown in the event of a delay in the completion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: Ms Hardiman might include that in any further material in respect of Tallaght.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: It would not be inaccurate to say it is at least a year behind.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: Mr. Gunning has given a figure for the anticipated cost of the hospital. How much was spent to the end of September 2020 by comparison with what was expected to have been spent by then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: I thank Mr. Gunning for that. I visited the site at various times during the Covid period. I was taken aback by how few workmen were on site. Mr. Gunning has my sympathies regarding BAM. I wonder whether there is a role for the Construction Industry Federation but obviously we also have a duty to taxpayers. I acknowledge that Mr. Gunning absolutely appreciates the frustration. I am not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: We are beginning to build a picture. Has BAM presented to the board an additional bill for demobilisation and remobilisation as a result of Covid-19? If so, how much was it for? Has it been agreed or is it still under negotiation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: This may seem like an unusual question to the board but what can this Joint Committee on Health do? This project is in trouble. The board is tied up in complexities. Everybody's ambition and objective is to complete it. We could make comments about BAM but because we are in committee we do not want to get anybody, or ourselves, into trouble. What can this committee, or any committee of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: Did the development board inform the Government or the Minister for Health of its deliberations around the possible termination of BAM as the contractor? That is a "Yes" or "No" question really.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: What was the response?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: Mr. Gunning used the word "intention". That is a strong word. It was the intention of the development board to terminate the contract. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: I get that and I am happy to clarify that the board had that intention. What stopped the board from doing that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: I have a second question. This begs the question - perhaps Mr. Gunning cannot answer this - as to how a contractor like BAM, which to me has suffered significant reputational damage, got the contract in the first place given the company's inability to provide the necessary human resources. That was before Mr. Gunning's watch, as it were. Mr. Gunning has pointed to that. Does Mr. Gunning...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: Does Mr. Gunning believe that BAM will be able to ramp up to the full human resource personnel requirement necessary?
- Road Traffic (All-Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motorcycle) (Amendment) Bill 2020: First Stage (17 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Road Traffic Act 1961 to further regulate the use of all-terrain vehicles and scrambler motorcycles in a public place, to make further provision for the seizure, by An Garda Síochána, of said vehicles and motorcycles in certain circumstances, to provide for the confiscation and disposal of same when a...
- Road Traffic (All-Terrain Vehicle and Scrambler Motorcycle) (Amendment) Bill 2020: First Stage (17 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (17 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: 79. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if personnel in full-time induction training can now be deployed on military service; and if they will now be paid the military service allowance. [36618/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (17 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: 82. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress in acquiring a strategic airlift capability, particularly in view of recent difficulties and delays on UN rotations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36617/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (17 Nov 2020)
John Lahart: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expenditure on health, social welfare and education as a share of GNI* for 2019 and 2020; the estimate for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36664/20]