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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: What percentage of the project is complete?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: So, assuming from that - let us call it €1.7 billion so far - that if there is about 40% of the project yet to run, which includes fit-out costs and everything else, would Mr. Watt agree it could be in and around €2.2 billion or would he even give a figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: So Mr. Watt will not give even a guesstimate as to what he thinks the final cost may be?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: Does the report give an estimate as to what the final cost would be?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: I can understand that but-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: On the basis that it is 50% to 60% completed, with the vast bulk of the construction and the outer skin of the building complete, which the committee saw, and obviously progress has continued from July onwards, was there built into the contract or was any foresight given to rising inflation costs? Were any materials or products pre-purchased at any point during this construction phase to try...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: Mr. Watt is not sure and is not sure to the quantity either. I can appreciate that the board would probably have more detail on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: I imagine they would. How often is the Department's engagement with the national children's hospital board? Is this monthly, weekly, or biweekly?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: I note from the documentation Mr. Watt supplied to the committee, which is helpful, that he gives an estimate of around 2024 as the completion date for this project. Does this include the two satellite centres?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: I am aware that one is complete but will they both be completed by 2024 or even before 2024?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: That would be helpful. Analysis was done by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board. In an email to the committee, I note that Mr. Watt stated that the analysis was not in relation to the progress of the national paediatric hospital but it related to forecasting of critical paths and scenarios for the optimal completion of the project. What exactly does Mr. Watt mean by that?...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: Is there anything that stands out to Mr. Watt from the analysis that he would like to share with the committee that he believes could be a big stumbling block to the completion, where it could be extended even beyond 2024?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: That is something I said to the hospital board and to Mr. Watt's Department in July. I believe that the scale of the project needs to be another element of explaining the sheer scale of this plan.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: I have other questions but I will not get the time on them, so I will turn to the legal costs for the Department. With regard to the MDU refusal, there are departmental legal costs in excess of €1.6 million, which is extraordinary. Is that the Medical Defence Union? That case has been rumbling on for quite some time. What has been going on for longer, and is quite frightening from...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: Does that then explain the elevated costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: Can I just ask-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: Will Mr. Watt clarify both figures for the MDU and the thalidomide case? Could he outline why the thalidomide case is the second largest legal cost of the Department at this point, given the case has been running on for 11 years or more?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: Will Mr. Watt please clarify both figures that were in the 2020 accounts for MDU and the thalidomide case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Cormac Devlin: Yes, the Department's legal costs.