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- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know it did.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I have seen the most awful buildings getting planning permission, as has everybody in this room and everybody watching these proceedings. The design is both complex and challenging. Would Mr. Gunning agree with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I am questioning Mr. Gunning, as project manager, at this point. In terms of the contract, PwC produced a report and recommendations, which I read yesterday. PwC said that the type of contract that was used presented risks. If we were doing it all again-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will have Mr. Gunning's response first and then I will let you in, Mr. Tierney.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: PwC had a good deal to say about the way the contract was structured.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know that. I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: The site is challenging though.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: The future came up earlier and obviously everything we do can be improved the next time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: It can always be improved, no matter how many times we have done it. If a team has played ten matches in the season and is going out to play the 11th, it will look at the mistakes made in the first ten games and try to improve for the next one. I understand that and what is important is that there are other contracts coming up, including for a national maternity hospital, which is badly...
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is what I meant by the contractor. I meant BAM.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is what I meant by the contractor. BAM put forward the figure of €641 million but the outcome was €18 million. There is a huge gulf between those two figures. On the determination of disputed claims, how many have been submitted by the board itself?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: No. I am going to ask my question in a different way because I want to try to get an answer here. Of the 2,379 claims, which is the total on the project so far, how many have been submitted by the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Every one of them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: When you say contractor claims, what do you mean? I want the public to understand this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Has the board submitted any claims?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: How many? That is what I am asking.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Is it ten?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: The board has made ten to 20 claims in respect of this project, but in the context of the contract for BAM there have been 2,379. We have established that. The total figure is now €18.85 million, if the extra €2 million is added in. It was said regarding delays that CHI has the right to withhold 15% per month. Has there been an occasion when that has been done?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes, but subsequently paid.