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Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: The period between one and two years would be 2020. That is what the document indicates. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is not what the document indicates.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: This is meant to be "between one and two years".

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: Fine. The witnesses can see why the figure is alarming me. The published audited accounts indicate, in layman's language, that these payments are to be made in 2020 but Mr. Gunning is now telling me this should be 2020 and 2021. It should cover between one and three years.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are taking the figure as wrong. It is between one and two years. Mr. Gunning is saying it is between one and three years.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am coming to that. We have covered year one.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: The next line refers to payments between year one and year two.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is after year one.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is not stated.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: The reference is to the two years after year one.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: It does not state that. I am putting it on the record that the accounts do not indicate that. We will stick with that. The witnesses are stating that in 2020 and 2021, the national children's hospital will require €653 million from the capital budget. We are dead right on that. Mr. Devine is nodding so my figures are dead right. A sum of almost €654 million will have to be...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: Fine. Mr. Breslin has told me the total capital construction budget for the HSE is €744 million for 2020 and €775 million for 2021.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: It appears that meeting the commitments for work already contracted and under way means the board will have to come up with €654 million between 2020 and 2021. It is stated in the accounts when that is expected to be paid. That is from a total capital construction budget of approximately €1.5 billion.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: I want those figures on record. What percentage is that?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: In that case, 40% of the capital budget for 2020 and 2021 will go straight to the children's hospital. I want to put that on the public record. It is what the figures indicate. The job of the Committee of Public Accounts is to look at these annual accounts and that is the implication of the figures. It is for another forum to say the children's hospital would not have an impact on the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: We know it is the biggest single project. It is why we would like to see accounts early in the year.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am not suggesting anything. I am just putting the fact on the table that it is 40% of the capital budget. I am not suggesting anything. The Deputy can see the way the figures were presented and they did not tally when I first read them. It read as if those payments would come from next year's budget. The witnesses have said it refers to the two years after year one, which I accept. I...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: Do the witnesses understand what I am seeking?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: If it is not a big table, it can be read into the record. I am happy for it come in writing.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

Seán Fleming: It might be neater. Things can get lost when they are read out loud.