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Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: I got the message from the witnesses that the board had fought tooth and nail to provide a full sprinkler system in the hospital. They are children and vulnerable. I know about the rooms, wards and floors where the inpatients were located, but there are four other floors through which the children could have to move to get out. The board appealed the decision to An Bord Pleanála which...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: What building regulations are being used, given that this is a once-off project and that nothing like it has ever been undertaken before? I can understand there are building regulations for offices, hospitals and other buildings, but there is no paediatric hospital in the country to which to compare it. The building regulations about which Mr. Pollock is talking cannot have been written on...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: I know that Mr. Pollock said there was an extra cost. What was it?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Did the board go to An Bord Pleanála because it did not want to incur the extra cost or because it thought the sprinklers were not needed? We understand they were not required under the building regulations, but obviously An Bord Pleanála felt it would be a proper sustainable development for the next 100 years. These requirements are now in place, but the witnesses keep telling us...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have made the point. At 2.30 p.m. we hope to have the document in which the sum of €1.7 billion will be broken down. I do not know how long the afternoon session will take as some members will not be coming back. When we come back, we will have a good estimate of how long it will take.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are dealing with the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and the costs relating to the new children's hospital in Dublin. We are joined by officials from the Department of Health. Before the suspension, we asked for a breakdown of the €1.7 billion expected cost, as of today, of completing the project. That is the cost as of today and it will be another issue if further...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: There is a mobile phone buzzing somewhere.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is not near the top here. Is it affecting the recording?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Please leave the item with the usher seated outside because such technology can interfere with the recording here.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Deputy, we are going to have to move on.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: One minute.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is it the general financial statement, Deputy?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: So from the annual findings?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: What is the page number in the document?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes, that is our briefing document.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: On what page?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Would Mr. Farragher say it is normal business?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is what was meant by that. We picked up that phrase.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.