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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Does the Chairman find this very easy to understand?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Yes. It might not be any harm if we got a printout of all of this and like-with-like comparisons.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I know it was-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: -----but slides have a habit of moving on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Not €1.7 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: They were not included previously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I have an idea too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I have one last question to clarify. I would like a graph on a single sheet to make the comparisons between the original estimated or projected cost, whatever it was, including the specification and the bill of quantities involved, and then to show the next step from €660 million, plus VAT of whatever the amount was, to €1.4 billion. I would like the graph to show the level of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I am asking about the difference between the highest-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I was given a different figure for that last week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I would like the figure and the explanatory sheet I described. Might the highest tenderer now feel disappointed given the problems that have arisen? Could the highest tenderer not say that, if its tender price had been accepted, there would not be such a vast amount of increase? Is it a fair enough assumption that the highest tenderer could say that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: That is not necessarily true because if that tenderer had pitched its costs more accurately, and I have a bit of experience in this area, we should not presume that it would have increased its costs subsequently in similar fashion to the lowest tenderer. That would be extraordinary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: When are these tenders opened? When I worked in a county council, they were opened at a council meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: These could be two very important minutes. Where are the tenders opened?
- Report of Joint Committee on Education and Skills: Motion (24 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: The Ceann Comhairle has advised me that if the House agrees, the next two speakers may now be heard, followed by the Minister's reply and the wrap-up contribution. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (24 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: 245. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which he continues to liaise with other Departments with a view to co-ordinating efforts to reduce emissions in line with international agreements and to protect industry and agriculture in view of the availability of measures to do so while still meeting the targets; and if he will make a statement on...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (24 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the extent to which the electricity generating capacity reliance on fossil fuels has been reduced in the past five years; the degree to which clean energy alternatives have been developed in the same period; the current and expected capacity in this regard in the foreseeable future with particular reference to the...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (24 Jan 2019)
Bernard Durkan: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding progress in the provision of high speed, high quality broadband in all areas nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3379/19]