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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: There was a great deal of expertise involved. Is it not hard to believe that no one saw, given the size of the project, that this was not going to work?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: If Mr. Pollock had been involved at the time, would he have gone ahead with it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: I do not have an issue with that. Even for somebody building a house, a small project, somebody would be able to advise whether the project would fly. No matter what the expertise, it is extraordinary that somebody never said to wait as there could be a problem. All this money was spent only to find it would not work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: I understand that. There was a high level of expertise and a great deal of money has been spent there. From what the witnesses found out, did anybody at any stage say there could be a problem?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Are any of those people who were involved in that project still involved today?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: So the architects for the Mater sites that were turned down are now still involved with the project for St. James's Hospital.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Are there many people who are involved in all areas on the Mater site still involved in the St. James's site, across the whole project?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: I know the board is new, but people who are actually carrying out the work.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Of those who were involved on the Mater site, when the site changed to St. James's were they paid in full for the work they had done or was there an issue with contracts with the work they had carried out or were expected to carry out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Is there any ongoing legal action?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Was one of the deliverables that we would get planning and that the project would go ahead?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: I understand that. I would imagine - I can be corrected on this - this is probably one of the largest projects the State will ever undertake and a service we all desperately need.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: However I get the impression that some people who were paid to do a job that did not work out got paid in full. I would have thought one of the measures would have been that once one is finished one's job the project goes ahead with the Mater site.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: One would imagine with the level of expertise it would have known a problem could have arisen.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Does Mr. Pollock think there was there a shortage of skill-sets initially in this project? Was the level of expertise there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (23 Oct 2014) Paul Connaughton: Would Mr. Pollock have done anything differently if he was there at the start?