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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: Ideally, we will have the 2014 accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: Thank you very much, Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: I am aware that councillors requested a report from Dublin City Council which was produced last Monday. I imagine that other local authority councillors will have requested the same.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and 2014 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38: Health
Chapter 13: Irish Blood Transfusion Service Pension Funding (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: Are we having a break?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: I welcome the witnesses here to the Committee of Public Accounts. There are two issues to which I wish to draw attention. The first is the impairment charge and the second is where we stand regarding delivery of the new hospital. The impairment charge is €35.5 million and the total expenditure was just short of €40 million. To anyone looking at this, it would seem...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: Mr. Pollock is telling me that of the €6 million plus that has been spent on design, no elements were transferable?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: Yes, there are, but very few and at a value of €2.6 million.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: The amount stated is €490,000.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: And who made that decision?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: But you made the decision and then you presented that decision to the new design team. Did you ask the new design team to look at the old design.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: Did they come to the conclusion?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: There were two designs for the children’s hospital at the Mater site. There was the initial design that was thrown out of court by the An Bord Pleanála inspector. The design team was told to go back to the drawing board. Following the rejection of that plan by An Bord Pleanála, in a very short space of time the development board conducted a second design, which did not go...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: It was of another hospital design for nine storeys instead of 16.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: Did the development board review not consider that?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: Surely Mr. Pollack should know since he has spent an awful lot of time conducting the survey for this analysis, and this has now been approved by everybody inside, with no mention of the second design that took place immediately after An Bord Pleanála rejected the first design.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: Surely the committee could have had a mention of the second design.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: It is not even referred to.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: What happened after An Bord Pleanála rejected the design, which took five years - from 2007 to 2012 - to produce? The design team went back to the drawing board and in the space of three or four weeks it came up with a new design for a children’s hospital on the same site.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: The point is that no reference was made to it.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013 (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Costello: It may have had some relevance and it should have been referred to the new design team when the development board made its decision. This new design was nearly half the height of the first design.