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

Bobby Aylward: How much will St. James's take out of that figure over the next number of years? Does anyone know that? Will it be €50 million next year and another €50 million every year until 2026?

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

Bobby Aylward: It will probably come out of the capital funding. Where else are we going to get it? My concern is, for example, that primary care centres in Kilkenny will not get funding. In June, the Minister promised a MRI facility for St. Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny and that it would be in the 2019 plan. The same concerns have been raised about the 24-7 cardiac unit in Waterford. Will...

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

Bobby Aylward: Will our guests accept that projects could, if not pulled altogether, be delayed by up to five years?

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

Bobby Aylward: That is as good an answer as I am going to get from the witnesses today. We will have to see, when the programme is announced and the same next year. I am sure we are going to be disappointed and some of us will be knocking at the Minister's door to find out why various things are being taken out. I am sure that is going to happen down the line. I know that it not the responsibility of...

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

Bobby Aylward: Or throw it in a bucket somewhere.

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

Bobby Aylward: Like a good Deputy, they are always ready.

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

Bobby Aylward: I want to ask a few questions. Have I another minute?

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

Bobby Aylward: I have a few questions on consultancy costs mentioned in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. The note states the consultancy costs are all outsourced; business as usual functions. What does that mean?

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

Bobby Aylward: Yes, I read that in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.

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

Bobby Aylward: Yes. The note is listed under the term "consultancy costs". The note states that consultancy costs are all outsourced; business as usual functions. Does anyone know what that means? I am sorry but I must have read a different paper.

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

Bobby Aylward: I am referring to the bottom of page 5.

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

Bobby Aylward: Yes, that is our briefing document.

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

Bobby Aylward: Are all consultancy costs or consultancies independently outsourced? I mean consultants.

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

Bobby Aylward: Has the board its own project team?

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

Bobby Aylward: Are the consultancy costs mostly inhouse or mostly outsourced?

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

Bobby Aylward: Is that where the term "business as usual" comes in?

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

Bobby Aylward: In 2017, planning application costs cost €7.3 million and, in 2016, it only cost €2.97 million. Why was the cost so high in 2017 yet so low in 2016?

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

Bobby Aylward: In what year was the planning application lodged?

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

Bobby Aylward: Yes.

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

Bobby Aylward: Is that why the note states there is a payment plan in place to repay Dublin City Council? What does that mean?