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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Going back to the concrete again, if one cannot build a concrete frame and bring in the beams and shuttering, one cannot put in the windows or heating system. My question is on the sequencing of works on site. Let us say if the contractor does not get the beams and the concrete in in the right period of time, for whatever reason, perhaps the wrong beams or the wrong type of concrete were...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Mr. Barry referenced that the pressures are all upwards, which is reflective of what is going on in the real world. If hypothetically, psychic Steve was with us today, in terms of inflation, if we had a recession, technically, the costs could go down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Some people have such gifts, but it would be great to predict inflation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand. Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is unlikely. The point I am making is that it is impossible to quantify right now where construction inflation will be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: No, I do not think anyone can. I am just making sure that there is nobody in here who knows the answer. We cannot know. The PwC report indicated it would be between 3% and 5%. We discussed that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Okay. I have one other question. It struck me the other night in Crumlin that everybody had new name tags with "CHI" on them. I am probably being petty but I get concerned when branding is a priority. Who is responsible for rolling that out? Everybody had new CHI tags. I think back to how difficult it was to implement a pay system, PPARS, in the past yet somehow the hospital has managed...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am all for that process, but it just struck me that everyone's tag had been changed. It is the most efficient thing I have seen recently.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: With regard to what I should not call the out-of-control expenses because that gives the wrong view, but the expenses or claims that are outside of the immediate control of the board, what are they? The witnesses mentioned they are managing the ones that are within their control. I do not want the narrative to go out that there is some element that is out of control, which is not what is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I wanted Mr. Barry to clarify that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: In regard to the bloods in Connolly Hospital, what is the plan for the future in terms of all CHI's bloods? Will the bloods from this hospital be processed on-site in the new children's hospital? What is the long-term plan for Tallaght, Connolly and Temple Street hospitals in terms of lab work? I understand it is probably okay to take a taxi but it is probably not equitable or handy for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: There have been questions as to whether any of the witnesses have ever built a hospital. There would be very little point in having somebody on the board who built a hospital 50 years ago, because there has been such a change in the way we deliver healthcare. I would like to make the point that it is fairly irrelevant whether someone has built a hospital, because the hospital being built...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I was going to annoy Mr. Barry about the percentage of windows but he had enough hassle this morning.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: I will try to be as brief as possible. We had the Charities Regulator in here last week and I wish to ask Mr. Cody about its relationship with Revenue, insofar as that is possible. We heard evidence last week that Revenue removed 579 people from the register of charities because they were inactive. Could he explain "inactive"? Is the removal from the register due to there being no...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: They were "deemed" registered.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: The term "deemed" is always concerning because I would argue that it does not necessarily mean "definite".
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: "Deemed" is flexible.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: No. Perhaps I have misled Mr. Cody. These are two separate issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: I get Mr. Cody.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: I will. It is a well-performing fund and seems to have a great deal of money, although I cannot remember how much exactly.