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Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: I must stop Mr. Watt there. Any reasonable person who is planning a project, regardless of what that project is, has an idea of what that project is going to look like, what it is going to deliver, how quickly it can be delivered and how much it is going to cost. I do not understand how, given the complexities of the project, all those logical parts of constructing a building could be set...

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: I ask Mr. O'Brien to comment on my question.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: A contractor or the contractor?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: How does the State obtain value for money on that basis?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: No, we are past the tender documents stage. At that point we are talking-----

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: I think a lot of that information is already in the public domain.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: In his opening statement Mr . Watt said that 100% clarity would be required on tendered costs. How can that possibly be achieved? If one thinks about a complex project like metro, for example, how on earth is one going to be able to achieve that?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: Mr. Watt has put that on the record of this House. References to 100% certainty in departmental documents are not credible.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: Mr. Watt is committing to more robust procedures, basically.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: It will have implications for everything.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: Effectively, what we are moving towards is fixed-price contracts but we are calling it something else.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: We must consider the nature of the difficulties with the hospital project and the potential for difficulties to arise in future projects. The largest capital project in the State is not the children's hospital, to correct my colleagues.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: It is the metro. If as a State we are operating with procedures which have proved to be not without difficulty, how can this or future Governments, committees on finance, public expenditure and reform and transport and the Committee of Public Accounts have certainty about and stand over the figures put out through the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and-or other Departments?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: We are being told that the project cost €3 billion.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: Is there a timeframe within which a fixed price contract kicks in?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: I was first elected to the Dáil in 2011. Shortly thereafter - I think in 2012 - the figure for the hospital project, admittedly on the Mater hospital site, was €450 million. Hindsight allowed me to profile the cost of T2 at Dublin Airport which Mr. Watt mentioned. It was estimated to cost €690 million, but with extra costs for fit-out and so on, the project came in at a...

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: What are the criteria for reporting the potential for overspends on a capital project?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: Let us suppose it is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. What are the criteria?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: An official of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform was seconded to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. We have heard repeatedly that that individual did not have any responsibility to report-----

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Alan Farrell: I am sorry - assigned.