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- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (3 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: We have long been successful in attracting FDI, particularly through the work of IDA Ireland and by offering low corporation tax rates and other questionable tax incentives to foreign companies. In fact, we overly rely on FDI. Our economy is over-reliant on a small number of multinational corporations in the context of the tax take. Some 45% of the total corporation tax take for 2018 came...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (3 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: I know there is no legal obligation to provide that information but as companies in receipt of State funding, grants and questionable tax incentives, one would imagine that the Department or IDA Ireland would be delighted to give out the information on pay scales, even if only to prove they are providing quality jobs. I want to give the Minister another example. National Pen in County...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (3 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: The question related to a Labour Court recommendation.
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Jobs Data (3 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Those jobs are welcome, but the Minister has not answered my question-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: I thank the Chairman. The witnesses are all very welcome. I will start with Mr. Barry if I may. Has there been any revision of the projected final cost since the figures were published in the PwC report last April?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: The board has not revised the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Can Mr. Barry explain how he can say that the GMP for construction is €1.433 billion or that the entire cost is €1.7 billion when we know that contractors' claims are being submitted on an ongoing basis?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: I know that and I know that there is a process of 20 days-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: -----and ten days.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: What I am saying is that those contractors' claims are being submitted on an ongoing basis. Mr. Barry said that currently approximately 50% of those claims have been processed. Most of them were the smaller claims. The other 50% of claims are outstanding and further claims will be submitted over the next three years and beyond. In that context, how can he say that there is a GMP when...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Where does the GMP come in? The process makes a nonsense of that, does it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Does Mr. Barry expect further overruns?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: I think what Mr. Barry is saying is that he cannot guarantee that there will be no further overruns, even with the guaranteed maximum price in place? Is Mr. Barry telling this committee that he cannot guarantee-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Just on that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: At the health committee last week, Mr. Barry put forward the argument that no one can predict and that it was impossible to know what way inflation would go. One of the members speaking to Mr. Barry was aghast that he did not have some business case or a model to determine it, but he made reference to the fact that the PwC report gave a range for inflation and that was all the board had...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: The next two paragraphs are redacted. I am wondering is the redaction in relation to the discussion around the risks associated with inflation. The headline is the board discussed the risks associated with inflation, and then there are two paragraphs redacted. Was that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Is the redaction in relation to the discussion around the risks associated with inflation?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: I am asking because every other headline includes the discussion that took place, except for the redaction under the headline, the board discussed the risks associated with inflation. Every other headline-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: -----includes the discussion. Was the redaction in relation to the discussion around inflation?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Okay. In relation-----