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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I really have to cut Mr. Quinn off because I want to ask other questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I will stop Mr. Quinn there because I have to pursue this line that I want to pursue. What other example in this country of a two-phase tendered major public construction project was he basing this on? What had been done before that he was using as an example?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We heard earlier that there were penalties if one had to go back and re-tender when one got to the detailed phase. Was that factored in?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: That is at variance with what I heard.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I understand that part of it. Who drew up the documents? Did a consultancy firm draw up the documents in relation to the two-phase process? Who was that?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Was a consultancy firm involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Did Mr. Quinn test this two-phase process? Did he ask for advice outside the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: We have in-house expertise as well, for example, associated with the Department of Finance, which watches - perhaps not quite - costs. There is, for example, expertise in the OPW.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Did Mr. Quinn asked its staff?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Were there reservations, if Mr. Quinn consulted them?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Was the imperative to get this done on time a higher priority than being within budget?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: I do not need to go into that. Mr. Breslin had to get some expertise in to tease out what was going on and get a professional evaluation done. Consultants brought in by the HSE or the Department to do that. The idea of this hospital was that it was to be tri-located and the maternity hospital was critically important in terms of the location. That will be all the more challenging now...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: The two-stage process or a separate board to develop it.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: How immature would Mr. Breslin say the approximate approach was?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: In terms of one step removed and having a board to deliver, if Mr. Breslin were to go back and redo this again, would he go the same route?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: There are significant additional medical facilities that will be constructed into the future. In terms of expertise within the Department, is it appropriate to beef that up? What recommendations would Mr. Breslin make in terms of learning from this with regard to capital projects? Should there be something in a more centralised format?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Given the amount we are spending on consultants, having that expertise might be very good value. Mr. Breslin is the Accounting Officer and is responsible-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Regarding Mr. Breslin's responsibility, does the structure of having a board do this work? Does that compromise that responsibility? Is it sufficient that the chairperson has the responsibility for reporting to Mr. Breslin if he or she is asked to?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: Was that the case with the hospital board?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Murphy: But was it the case?