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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Looking at the amount involved with the environmental levy, it is obviously about a point of principle rather than the individual. The entire levy could be compromised by a decision in that case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: On this issue, we sought information on several matters relating to the national broadband plan, such as the entity, how it changed and who were the people behind it. Did we receive that information?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Can we get it? I specifically sought it because the final bidder changed over time. The committee should be able to track each time it changed in order to ascertain who were or are the people behind it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We sought that information and I have been looking out for it, but did not see it arriving. The committee has a work programme. The issue of when we will do the report will probably not appear on that programme. Another committee is doing some work on this area and the work we did may be helpful to it because we largely focused on the metropolitan area networks, MANs, contracts and the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Exactly. The extension and the sale without tendering the sale. We heard from other parties that they would have tendered. The fact that Granahan McCourt was the company behind Enet is useful work which should not have to be duplicated by the other committee. That makes it important that we finalise our work in this area. I acknowledge that there is likely to be one further hearing, but...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The witnesses are very welcome. We are looking at process and value for money, which is the remit of the committee. One of the things that creates costs in any project is a failure to design it and nail things down at a very early stage. Reading any documentation or report on this, one would have to say that it is almost entirely because of the process that we face such significant...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: On a board where there is particular expertise, say clinical expertise, one does not second-guess it. As such, Mr. Quinn's expertise on procurement was critical in this. He was the influencer on the board where process was concerned.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Mr. Quinn came from a public service background.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Where did the idea of the two-phase process come from? Did it come from the board itself? Where within the board was it generated?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Was Mr. Quinn on that subcommittee?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Who chaired it?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I have limited time, as Mr. Quinn knows.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Was Mr. Quinn a supporter of this two-phase process? Did he buy into it?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Did the board have a disagreement about it?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: As such, the board did identify cost risks.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: What did the board do to mitigate those risks?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I will read from the minutes of May 2014, featured on page 3 of a briefing document dated 12 March. They say that the second part, comprising the remainder of the building contract, would be tendered using a bill of approximate quantities, with PC, prime cost, provisional sums for large work packages such as mechanical or electrical works. Both parts would be tendered at the same time.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: All of the evidence suggests that the board nailed costs down at the beginning. How could the board nail down the costs of the construction phase at the beginning when it did not have a detailed design?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: They were tendered at the same time. It is approximate.