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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: How is information shared between members of the board? Is it electronically?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: Is it done using a consistent, dedicated NPHDB email address or members' private email addresses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is very simple. The board is a public body and information cannot be outside its circle. I am asking if all of the information is within the circle of that body.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: As chairman, Mr. Costello can guarantee that there is no information outside it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: Perfect. Mr. Costello might remind us of the reporting mechanism. To whom does he report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: Specifically, to whom does Mr. Costello or Mr. Pollock report?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: Therefore, the reporting mechanism involves Mr. Costello or Mr. Pollock acting as PRO, for want of a better phrase. They communicate with Mr. Dean Sullivan who, in turn, reports to Mr. Jim Breslin, chairman of the other body. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: I am very interested in this. There are a number of critical decision-making milestones in the project. Obviously, there is the awarding of the tender. I have major concerns about the scale of the undercut by the contractor. It sets off alarm bells. There are examples in other projects, even large-scale projects, in this country which are well known. That was one critical milestone....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: Good. That is a very honest answer. I thank Mr. Costello very much. The information behind those critical decisions will, dare I say it, help the board because, from a transparency point of view, it will help us. We just need to get to the bottom of this. We also, on behalf of the taxpayers, need to get to the process behind making a decision to proceed at the very top, from a Government...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: I am really asking about how that was communicated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is my understanding that the first the HSE knew about this was in and around the middle of November. Would that be correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: There was a meeting in the HSE around the middle of November, which was absolutely mind-boggling to it. As politicians, we deal with the HSE all the time. I had been warned for months that I might as well forget about the 60 bed unit in Limerick hospital and the 50 bed unit in south Tipperary, both of which would be of concern to my constituency, about the national maternity strategy, about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: Obviously Dean Sullivan is not here. We should bring him in next week. I will be recommending that to the Committee of Public Accounts. I presume that would then have been communicated up the line to Jim Breslin pretty quickly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: If that is not accurate, the witnesses can tell me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: I am aware.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: I am aware of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: A total of €60 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: The Department, namely, Jim Breslin or the Minister or both, would have been aware of that in late 2017.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is fine. That is not the issue on which I wish to concentrate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Alan Kelly: We are somewhat short on time.