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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What happened to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: At what stage is that plan?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Will BAM do that also?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I return to the accounts and I will focus on the nitty-gritty of one or two matters. I asked about the rent and I quoted the wrong figure, about which the Comptroller and Auditor General rightly corrected me. The report makes reference to an office fit-out. The prices are colossal. In 2016, the office fit-out was estimated at approximately €594,000. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: In addition to the rent, there is a office fit-out, at more than €500,000, and then in 2017, there was another office fit-out estimated to cost €133,945. Will someone explain those figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Are the figures justified?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Outside of the committee, we will pick up the consequences of this on the ground, as some of my colleagues have outlined. There have been references to the new model of care, where fewer children will be going to hospital. The damning reality is that fewer children will be going to hospital in other places because there will not be hospitals and projects will be stopped. I consider that in...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am not sure if that could justify the fit-out of an office costing €500,000.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: At that cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Community gain. I will leave that matter. There was another sentence I did not understand on page 19 of the report. It states, "Consultancy costs are all outsourced "Business-as-usual" functions." What does that mean?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am sorry. I must have missed it. Did I arrive late?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I missed that explanation.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I had not seen it previously.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The final matter in the accounts I wish to examine is legal costs.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What were the legal costs associated with the action?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Was the case settled or did it end up in court?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is it still an outstanding legal case? Has it yet been settled?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I ask Mr. Pollock to listen to my question. Has it been settled or is it still open?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What is the €98,000 for?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: But it has not yet been resolved.