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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So what is Ms Conroy saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Why did that change?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: What led it to that recognition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I refer to 2007 with the establishment of the national paediatric hospital development board and the brief. When I look back at the documents, it was charged with planning, designing, building, furnishing and equipping. At some point it was decided we would not worry about equipping or furnishing and in phase B we would have to engage another board to deliver that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: At the outset and the planning of the project, was it envisaged that it would be needed at this point? Was the new board, as Ms Conroy has just described it, planned from the start or did the recognition she spoke of lead to the establishment of the board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am stuck for time and we have heard a lot of answers and I do not want to hear a repeat. I am being very clear with Ms Conroy. At the outset, ten years ago, was there a plan to have the board that started in May 2017?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: When did this recognition in the Department that this new board was needed occur and what sparked it? Is Ms Conroy saying that it was an evolving situation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: There was no formal board-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: In terms of the remit of the new board, its remit was to ensure delivery against agreed parameters, timelines, scope and funding. Who decided the remit of the new board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The second board, the new board, the board of May 2017.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Was the steering group appointed at the same time as that board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Is there overlap between the steering group and the board? Do some people who sit on the new board that was established in May 2017 sit on the steering group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Is there a payment to sit on those boards?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is very clear from the language in the opening statements that the HSE is the sanctioning body and the principal capital funder sourcing the money from the capital plan. It is very clear that the HSE is in charge of the purse strings here. I wish to move on to the two-stage tendering process. We spoke about this here last week and I am quite happy with the explanations, to some extent,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It requires a fairly simple answer. How many people tendered for phase A, the substructure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: For phase B, the tendering for this started once phase A had started. How many looked to tender for phase B?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: That was from the company which ultimately got the project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Mr. Pollock's background is in the construction industry. Would it be fair to say by BAM being on site, having knowledge of the site and having intimate contact with the design teams on the project, that it was at a fairly significant advantage when it came to tendering for phase B in the sense that if one was another building contractor, it would not make any sense to go onto a site that...