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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Is there a payment to sit on those boards?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is very clear from the language in the opening statements that the HSE is the sanctioning body and the principal capital funder sourcing the money from the capital plan. It is very clear that the HSE is in charge of the purse strings here. I wish to move on to the two-stage tendering process. We spoke about this here last week and I am quite happy with the explanations, to some extent,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It requires a fairly simple answer. How many people tendered for phase A, the substructure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: For phase B, the tendering for this started once phase A had started. How many looked to tender for phase B?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: That was from the company which ultimately got the project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Mr. Pollock's background is in the construction industry. Would it be fair to say by BAM being on site, having knowledge of the site and having intimate contact with the design teams on the project, that it was at a fairly significant advantage when it came to tendering for phase B in the sense that if one was another building contractor, it would not make any sense to go onto a site that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: A preliminary phase B.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Is that not the problem in the sense that it tendered for a preliminary costing based on re-measurable quantities, as part of phase A? That is why we ended up with this problem. That is where the costs of escalated. It tendered essentially by "picking a figure out of a hat" rather than a real figure in terms of the overall costs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand that. That was explained last week and that it is more about the different lengths of cables rather than the actual measurement. Mr. Pollock explained that very well last week but he has not answered my question. As somebody with experience in the construction sector, would he not consider it highly unusual for another contractor to come in and look to build on someone else's...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It did not have an advantage. In Mr. Pollock's considered opinion, did already being on site not lead to any competitive advantage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I get that. It had a rate per fill of concrete, per square foot of tiles or whatever. People simply did not seem to know how many square foot or how many lengths were needed. That is very clear. I am very concerned that a company came in and tendered for both phases, got the first one and gave a preliminary price for the second one which bore no reflection to the final price....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: As to specifications for these units, are they of the same specification as the proposed new building of the children's hospital in terms of digitalisation and the matters we heard of last week?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand that but I am talking about the 5 km behind the casings in terms of specifications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am talking about specification and the paperless and digital aspect of it. I am not talking about size.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Last week it was explained to us that one of the issues about not knowing the full price was because medicine evolves and that it was not known how many cables would be needed for such and such a transmission and that each room had to have a closed circuit, so if the circuit went down, it would not shut down the whole ward. However, there was something to compare it against if the outpatients...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Someone said "similar".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Obviously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: In terms of the wires behind the casings, they are similar. I am referring to the digital data feed and so on. It is the same idea.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I totally understand. There is no need to-----