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Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Pollock does not need to tell me the details. I understand he cannot do so, but has the matter been resolved?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: What is the anticipated cost of the case?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Was it for damage done?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is it one case on behalf of a group of residents or is each resident taking a separate case?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Are there other cases?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I would like to turn to the issue of the board. How many re on it?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: How many are female?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: How many are doctors?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is she retired from the board or as an engineer?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I am sorry, but is she on the board or not?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is it a five-year term?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The current membership were all appointed in 2013 and then reappointed in 2018 by the Minister.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Were they reappointed before the escalation in costs was brought to the attention of the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Therefore, the escalation in costs was brought to the attention of the Department following the appointment of the board members.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The escalation in costs was brought to the attention of the Department in August.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is, in a sense, an impossible task. PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting firm, is examining the matter, at a cost of €450,000. The witnesses should be telling us what went wrong, what governance arrangements were in place, what has been learned and so on. What I have learned from Mr. Costello and Mr. Pollock is that the details of the tender were a bit on the lean side, that...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: With the exception of one or two, the board members are from the private sector.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The vast majority are from the private sector, which supposedly is very good, more efficient and cost effective and the public service is dreadful. That is the message form all of this. The public service decided that it was not able for this project, that it was too complex and should be given to the experts. It set up a board and set itself the job of monitoring the project under the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: The board was to plan, design, construct and equip it.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Costello can explain all of that to the Chairman on his time, but will he please tell me the point he is leading to? What changed? The members of the board were appointed as experts. They have repeatedly told us and the Joint Committee on Health about their backgrounds and how they are the experts. They were employed and I gather their money went up during this period. The money for...