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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Given what he has said, and that this procurement model had never been used before, would Mr. Barry have imagined that this sort of history - which was out there in the public domain - would have been taken into account given the scale of the project, the costs involved and what we have seen to date?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Would there ever have been a prevention from doing that?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: It was not done anyway. Maybe it was a bit slack.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: That is why we are where we are, I suppose.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Mr. Devine was involved at that stage. Irrespective of what has been said in the past few minutes, was he aware of BAM's record in respect of overruns?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Was the rest of the board aware of that? Did Mr. Devine inform the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Is this not amazing, though? I refer to what was said about past performance in the private sector. Whoever said it laughed straight away. Of course past performance comes into it, but not in the public sector. My next question is about delays. Last week in the health committee Mr. Barry gave the impression that there were fairly minor delays with the build, but when he was pressed...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: When Mr. Barry refers to the delays and the setback in time, what kind of delay is he talking about?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: If there were further delays, that would set it back further and further. I was curious because what Mr. Barry said at the health committee about minor delays did not tally with what Mr. Reid, I think, from the HSE said. There were media reports going back to last September that an internal memo in the HSE had stated that capital project for the new children's hospital is facing delays to...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Mr. Reid said that "capital project for the new children's hospital is facing delays to the construction programme which could impact critical timelines if mitigation measures are not taken". I would presume that the board would have seen to it that stringent mitigating measures were taken to ensure that there are no further delays and timelines are not set back. Please outline what steps or...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Has nothing been pinned down? Can Mr. Barry show us a document today that lists the mitigating measures that have been put in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Fair enough. I want to ask about the experience of the board. There was a lack of experience on the first board. How many hospitals has Mr. Barry built?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: No, I am not talking about working or being part of working. Mr. Gunning has said that he has never done either. He has not been involved in the construction of a-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Who, on the board, is experienced in leading a hospital project of this scale?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: Leading.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: We were furnished with a list that contained everybody's details and I did not see any board member who had managed or led a project of this scale before.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: No. I asked who has led a project.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: I am talking about a hospital-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: -----because we are talking about something specialised.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)
Imelda Munster: So Mr. Barry has not. I ask because of what is stated at the bottom of page 70 of the PwC report regarding controllable risks and please note that the contractors are BAM. It reads: "Contract management. The Contractors understand the contractual relationships better than the NPHDB, allowing them to exploit opportunities to increase prices." Is that not more or less saying they can make...