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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: There are a lot of smoke and mirrors in that. The bottom line is we have a standing conciliator who has all of the evidence. It is a legal-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: It is. It has-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: -----status in relation to the contract. Of course it has status.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: As Mr. Gunning has agreed, it is binding and the conciliator has recommended €108 million. I understand what Mr. Gunning is saying, namely, that the board is going to fight this and that, ultimately, the courts will decide on all of these claims. The conciliator looked at the evidence and all of the information from the board and decided, as part of a partial claim on what are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: As a consequence, Mr. Gunning would argue that is the main contributing factor to delays.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Why did the independent conciliator, the referee, not agree with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: We are not here to adjudicate. There is a lot of blame to go around. There is an obvious blame game because we have counterclaims from the contractor who is talking about all of the additional design changes and so on, which I will not go into. We have these claims and counterclaims. Ultimately, the courts will decide on all of this. My point is that Mr. Gunning cannot say for certain...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: That is saying I will walk away from my responsibilities. Ultimately-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: That is my point exactly. You do not know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: You said that not one extra cent would be paid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I am not looking for a sweetheart deal. Somebody who is very senior in this project is saying not one more cent will be paid, which may be the case right now in terms of what the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board wants to pay. I am simply making the point this will be taken out of the power of the board and even the Government and will be decided by the courts. Nobody can say...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: That is a different matter. I want to come to the rooms because it seems extraordinary that the board is essentially saying not one room is complete to standard. With all of the issues, cost overruns and completion dates that have come and gone, I find it hard to explain to people that we have 3,100 rooms which the contractor is saying are complete but the board is saying are not complete...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: My time is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I want to go back to the issue of claims. I understand that there has to be a strategy, so the question then is: is the strategy working? Certainly, up to now, the strategy has not been working because we have delay after delay. The board is essentially saying that this is exactly the tactic of the contractor to try to drag things out and to try to force the board and the Government's hand...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I suppose my question is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I accept all of this. Mr. Gunning said he had a meeting with the CEO, one of the senior figures in BAM. I am asking whether an attempt was made to meet BAM, or whether there were any discussions about it, to see whether the board could come to some compromise or settlement that would be reasonable and protect the taxpayer, whereby BAM may well recover some of the claims it has submitted,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: And?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: No success.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: There is €500 million additional money allocated to the project. There was total expenditure of €1.7 billion, which increased to €2.2 billion. As we know, the Cabinet signed off on €500 million more. Where did that €500 million go? Where is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Has it been allocated?