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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2021)

Imelda Munster: Right. Can we ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to give us his opinion on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jan 2021)

Imelda Munster: That is fine. I thank the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (3 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: 232. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the review of the Children’s Commercial Communications Code will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5254/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: The parents of children at the Drogheda Educate Together Secondary School on Mill Road in east Meath have recently been informed that the school is to move to a site at St. Oliver's Community College on the far side of Drogheda. There was no consultation whatsoever with the teachers, board of management or the parents. Parents are rightly asking how the Department can say that a temporary...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: I am sorry. I have it now.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: I will ask my first questions of Mr. Gunning. In his opening statement he said that the paediatric outpatient and urgent care facility in Tallaght was originally due to be completed this month. In November, he told the Joint Committee on Health that it was running seven months behind schedule. He said here that it would not be completed before September 2021. Is September 2021 the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: Can Mr. Gunning be fairly definitive about that?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: At the same meeting of the health committee in November, Mr. Gunning said his working assumption and guidance to Children's Health Ireland was that he was continuing to work towards the contract timelines until such time as there was a change in programme. At the time one of the members described that as delusional. Is he still working under the assumption that the construction will be...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: If we are 10 months behind from August 2022, we would be looking at June 2023 and then I understand there is a service activation period.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: It is my understanding that there is a service activation period, which takes about nine months. Is it right that it would take nine months on top of that?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: We know that. Is Mr. Gunning still realistically sticking to that date of October 2022?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: Was that work, which the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board is carrying out with the Department, the same report Mr. Gunning was talking about to the health committee last November?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: That is what I was going to say. Mr. Gunning did give a commitment. So four months on, the board is no further and Mr. Gunning still cannot give a commitment for the completion date. In respect of the service activation period, am I right in saying that would last about nine months so one adds those nine months on again?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: Are we talking realistically about the national children's hospital not being open until 2024 at the earliest given that we are now in February 2021?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: Realistically, given the delays outlined by Mr. Gunning, the setbacks and the fact that the service activation period is nine months, we could be talking about having to wait until at least 2024 before we get our national children's hospital.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: I have a few questions about the cost. It was originally budgeted as costing €650 million. It was only when the price shot up to in excess of €1.7 billion that the Committee of Public Accounts took note of the matter. The latest estimates I see reported are in excess of €2 billion. The PwC review recommended that comprehensive plans should be developed to mitigate the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: So it did.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: Does Mr. Gunning accept that there was clearly a failure given the ongoing spiralling costs? We will get to those in a moment.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: As they are spiralling.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)

Imelda Munster: But the costs are still spiralling.