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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: If the cost overrun at Ulster Hospital went over twice, the board should have seen it coming.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming in this week to speak to us. I have a number of questions. What happened to spark the establishment of the additional board in May 2017? Ms Conroy just spoke about April 2017 when the overruns became apparent. I spent a lot of time reading the opening statements last night. It took me a lot of time to work out. Maybe it is not fair to say but it strikes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand. At the outset-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So it was not a surprise. Ms Conroy is saying this was planned. In a sense what she is saying is - perhaps I do not understand her - that a new board was established because the HSE had moved into a new phase and, therefore, the existing board had run out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So what is Ms Conroy saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Why did that change?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: What led it to that recognition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I refer to 2007 with the establishment of the national paediatric hospital development board and the brief. When I look back at the documents, it was charged with planning, designing, building, furnishing and equipping. At some point it was decided we would not worry about equipping or furnishing and in phase B we would have to engage another board to deliver that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: At the outset and the planning of the project, was it envisaged that it would be needed at this point? Was the new board, as Ms Conroy has just described it, planned from the start or did the recognition she spoke of lead to the establishment of the board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am stuck for time and we have heard a lot of answers and I do not want to hear a repeat. I am being very clear with Ms Conroy. At the outset, ten years ago, was there a plan to have the board that started in May 2017?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: When did this recognition in the Department that this new board was needed occur and what sparked it? Is Ms Conroy saying that it was an evolving situation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: There was no formal board-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: In terms of the remit of the new board, its remit was to ensure delivery against agreed parameters, timelines, scope and funding. Who decided the remit of the new board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The second board, the new board, the board of May 2017.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Was the steering group appointed at the same time as that board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Is there overlap between the steering group and the board? Do some people who sit on the new board that was established in May 2017 sit on the steering group?