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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)
Marc MacSharry: Except that the cost was going to overrun by hundreds of millions of euro.
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: Did the project stop then?
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: You are clear on that issue in your opening statement, in which you throw the Minister and Mr. Breslin under the bus in implying this is their baby, not yours.
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: I am speaking to the Chairman but looking at Mr. Watt.
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: I agree with Mr. Watt. That is the same as us. It is just that he has that one piece of the whole statement in bold.
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: I get 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)
Marc MacSharry: I have one very good suggestion - do not go to tender any more unless the Department has an absolutely detailed design. To me, that is tendering 101, and all I have built is a house. There is one bit of advice.
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: Can I continue?
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: He invited advice. I threw in my tuppence worth from an ordinary-----
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Watt is right. It is much more complex-----
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: -----so why would the Department not get the detailed design first?
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: I am talking to you, Chairman.
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: That point is made. That is an observation. Mr. Quinn, as head of the OGP, reports to Mr. Watt. Is that correct? How often does Mr. Watt meet him in that function? Are there scheduled meetings daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly?
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: That is fine. That is all I need to know on that. I put it to Mr. Watt that it is not credible that in 52 meetings a year - let us take off two or three for holidays-----
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. Let us take ten off, that is, 42 meetings a year. I do not believe it credible that Mr. Quinn would not say to Mr. Watt, "Just to let you know what's going on down the road. We are overshooting here". For a man of Mr. Watt's experience, given all the excellent projects that have worked out so well, which he rightly put on record as he is entitled to do and in which I support him 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)
Marc MacSharry: What does it mean then?
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: The head of contracts might know.
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, but the Department of Health briefing document states: "Exclusions include ....". I only have a basic understanding of language and certainly none of value engineering but, reading English, this says to me that if construction inflation goes over 4% when it is performing at 7.5% last year and projected, according to AECOM Ireland's annual review looking ahead to 2019, that it is likely...
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: That is the contract.
- 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)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. So that we are absolutely clear for the people watching at home, for all of our organisational oversight and reviews, nobody knows what the price will be because if construction inflation performs broadly in line with profile of experts such as AECOM Ireland and the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, we can chuck it down. BAM will be in a position to renegotiate aspects of price...