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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)

Catherine Murphy: What is very clear is that there is a process failure in terms of the way this was proceeded with, and we can see in hindsight that it is a very costly way of doing things. Indeed, had this been presented as a project that was going to cost over €1.7 billion, whether it would even have been proceeded with is in question. It was incredibly important that this was not a guesstimate but...

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)

Catherine Murphy: What really concerns me is that there is a serious institutional gap, as can be seen with regard to the derogation. I do not see where the learnings are. While we are discussing this as a real-time project, there is another project that is being dealt with on this list which is being dealt with internally in the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. What we are...

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)

Catherine Murphy: That is fine.

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)

Catherine Murphy: It should not be on this list 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)

Catherine Murphy: I also asked about a greenfield site and the two-stage process.

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)

Catherine Murphy: I want to come back to the point that the lowest tender was 20% lower than the second lowest tender and the third lowest tender was 45% higher than the lowest tender.

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)

Catherine Murphy: Surely that would raise a red flag that something was not right and questions needed to be asked about the lowest price?

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)

Catherine Murphy: Mr. O'Brien can comment on the general point.

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)

Catherine Murphy: I am sorry-----

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)

Catherine Murphy: In taking on a project we need to know we can pay for it. In 2016, the national children's hospital was announced and the figure given by the Taoiseach was €650 million all in. Where would that figure have come from? Under the big capital projects, did the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have had a guesstimate at that stage? Is the same the case for the national...

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)

Catherine Murphy: Therefore, it was a guesstimate at that stage.

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)

Catherine Murphy: It is fair enough if that is what it was.

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)

Catherine Murphy: I have a memory of there being a delay because finances were being put in order. We had to be able to show we could pay for it. There was an upper limit on that as well. There should have been some tolerance within that guesstimate that it would be at least an average.

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)

Catherine Murphy: Many more people would have tendered for it if they thought the project was going to be €1.4 billion for construction.

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)

Catherine Murphy: Is €500 million a guesstimate for the national broadband plan? Has there been a guesstimate on it?

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)

Catherine Murphy: That could be a case of "Think of a number and multiply it by six" or it could be a case of "Right, we don't know".

Tributes on Retirement of Member of Staff (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I too would like to wish Patricia well. There are people in this House who one always expects to be there and Patricia is one of those. Obviously, Patricia is someone on whom one can rely. If she went and checked something, the advice she gave on her return was absolutely right. That is because of years of being consistent. That is to her credit. I wish Patricia well for the future....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: I understand that the Government approved the appointment of a judge for the independent assessment for the CervicalCheck non-disclosure ex gratiapayment last week and that the decision was to be finalised at the Cabinet meeting this week. Did this happen? When will the details be made known to the women in question? Furthermore, what are the timelines for the assessment and for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to a person (details supplied); the way in which neurological conditions are specifically catered for in the school environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11475/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Mar 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the number of prequalified contractors has been reduced from ten to eight in the re-tendering process for the two schools in Maynooth education campus; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, KWETB, has reduced this number to seven prequalified contractors and that the...