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- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: The Government and the Department will be more than aware that money has to be available from January next year. As Deputy Kelly says, we can only spend money once and this is impacting on other projects. Claims will have to be paid out of this amount as well, if claims are approved. The potential implications for the extended timeline has gone to the Department. Has any contingency gone...
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I am not asking for the amount, I am asking whether it has been included.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Okay, so it has been included. Is the Government aware that it must come up with additional funding by the end of this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: The 2021 accounts were laid this week. We had expected to be able to see some amounts or some contingency. That is not included. I direct this question to the Comptroller and Auditor General. If the accounts do not accurately reflect, in terms of payments that are decided afterwards in relation to claims, would that mean that there are embedded arrears and does that mean that there would...
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It would go into the following year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: For contingent liability.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Okay. The committee received a reply from CHI a couple of weeks ago on a range of topics, one of which is agency and recruitment. CHI draws staff from seven different recruitment agencies. Ms Hardiman is telling us there is a staff engagement programme and training of new teams. How does CHI train agency staff? Is workforce planning under way to avoid the need for agency staff as much as...
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: I appreciate all that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: At the moment there is a high level of dependency on agency staff, however. CHI deals with seven different agencies. How will it avoid that when this hospital opens?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: That assumes there will still be agency staff after-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: CHI stated it would not get into discussion about the extended timeline up to next year, but it was extended from November 2022 until now. What was the cost of that extension?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Are there additional claims-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Those figures would be disputed because they are gone past. That falls into the same category as CHI's approach to inflation. Once you go beyond November 2022, building inflation does not apply. I am just trying to establish-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: -----that there is no advantage to the contractor in stretching this out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: When the snagging is substantially complete, does that mean all of the snagging is done or will there continue to be work?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: On the issue that arose regarding the ventilation problems in the theatres. I think it was 11 theatres or something.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Does that require amendments to what is there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: It is very modest.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: There was a big controversy around that at the time. We are all probably a bit confused about the claims, including where they are and at what part of the process. I appreciate the table CHI provided us with, although I do not find it that easy to read. CHI is trying to pack a lot of information in there. The financial statements tell us that in April 2023, the employer had been...
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Catherine Murphy: Is that what it is?