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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: That is very helpful. Mr. Pollock identified four clusters. How does the €24.5 million break down across those four?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: All of this is now impaired.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I am a little puzzled because the €40 million figure includes integrated design team costs of €6.1 million. As Mr. Pollock indicated to Deputy Connaughton, these costs related to connectivity and joining up, in a rational, efficient and quality manner, the services of three separate hospitals to create one service. I am concerned and do not fully understand how the level of...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: On workforce planning, the workforce remains the workforces, irrespective of whether one moves employees to a new site either on the Mater Hospital campus or in St. James's Hospital. I am puzzled by the level of impairment in some areas.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: No, I would not expect that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: That is astonishing from a practical point of view. While I do not pretend to have expertise in the field, speaking as a layperson, the scale of impairment on a figure of €40 million is astonishing. I fully accept that this is a new plan for a new site and that time has moved on, albeit not to any great extent in the sense that I have not noticed any radical transformation in health...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: It is a huge write-off and I suggest that, given its scale, it merits a dedicated examination to ascertain why that is the case. I am troubled by this.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: I am not questioning the process; Mr. Pollock has made that absolutely clear. However, in terms of PM Group, the legal teams, health policy designers, people in charge of the business case and so forth, these were essentially consultancy contracts. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. Pollock will be aware of the legitimate public anxiety about expenditure on consultants. We need to return to this issue because I am taken aback by the scale of the impairment. We will move on to the here and now. I have a couple of questions on the report the board forwarded to the committee and the current status of the project. The report states that following approval of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Was it the steering group that drew up the shortlist of those that qualified and was the list based on the suitability questionnaire?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: What was the value of the contract for BDP?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: BDP is an international outfit, is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: So it has an Irish office. Who designed the suitability questionnaire and where did it come from?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: From where were the personnel for the technical and financial evaluation panels drawn?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Who signed off on the composition of these panels? Was it the development board? I do not presume Mr. Pollock has the information with him here today, but can we have access to the names and qualifications of those who were on the technical and financial evaluation panels? Can Mr. Pollock provide us with that information?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: What was the scale of the quantity surveying contract, what was it worth and who won it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. Costello know the identity of the successful bidder?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: What about the contract for mechanical and electrical engineering?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Mary Lou McDonald: Who are they? Is it an Arabic company?