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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: No. 9 is the engagement on the role of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the delivery of the national children's hospital. I welcome the Secretary General of the Department, Mr. Watt, and his officials. I invite him to make his opening statement. If he wishes, he can cut it down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: As usual.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Watt. I ask members to stick to the agreed ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: The Deputy should be mindful of the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: The Deputy's time is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: I have been asked to take a break. We will break for ten minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: We will resume in public session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Watt. Deputy Cowen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Can I work through a couple of questions to clarify this for myself?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Was the contract for the national children's hospital an open contract, a restricted contract or a negotiated contract? How does the Department describe the contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Is it described as open, restricted or negotiated?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: As such, the tender was restricted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: To go back to the contracts committee, who is the chair and secretary of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Who is the secretary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Can Mr. O'Brien name the secretary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: I just want to know the detail. I am just asking. It is an official in the OGP. Did the chairman, Mr. O'Brien, and this official in the OGP report to the person over the OGP? Who is over the OGP?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: I am sorry for naming him, but I was not the first one to do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Mr. Quinn is over the Office of Government Procurement. Mr. O'Brien chairs a committee for the contracts under the OGP. The secretary of the committee is an official from the OGP. Is that correct? Was Mr. Watt aware the derogation was being sought from the Government's contracts committee on behalf of the hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Might there have been a conflict of interest between the board of the national children's hospital and, in particular, the head of the OGP? The board was asking for a derogation from the contracts committee chaired by Mr. O'Brien, which includes an official from the OGP. Is that not a conflict of interest in that one player is on the board of the children's hospital while the others are on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: One has the children's hospital board-----