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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I know, but that is just-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: A lot has been made of the contractor who builds the wall for three times more, that he cannot be ruled out and all the rest. The Minister is aware of the Regulation of Tenderers Bill, which would have dealt with this issue and is in compliance with EU law. My colleague, Deputy Mairéad Farrell, brought it forward in December 2021. The reality is that he voted against it so he cannot...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister voted against it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: First, in regard to the STS inspections-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: In relation to the inspections, the STS report to Children's Hospital Ireland states very clearly that none of the issues raised following the Minister's previous visit had been addressed and new ones were discovered. The situation was actually getting worse. That is the first point. The second point is that the Minister said I was wrong and the Department official had corrected me, which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: That is not acceptable. This is a major project being built with taxpayers' money. That is ridiculous. Seriously, it is beneath the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: A major generic fault is what the independent expert report stated to Children's Health Ireland in May and again in November. It is now June. This is not a small issue. With respect, it is not about the colour of paint on the walls. What the experts are telling the Minister is that it will cost more money and involve more delays if the problem is not addressed before the theatres are built.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Some would argue the Minister is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: He did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: He did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: No. He said it can work concurrently but it could lead to delays-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: -----and it could take a year to fix the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: However, the hospital is not even to be opened until when? The Minister does not even know. As the earliest date is March, obviously were the work to be started now, it would not delay the hospital by one year, so he did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: Oh, come on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I will respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I want to make this point and will finish on it, because the Minister has again tried to play the man instead of the ball. The Minister for Health has a project that has run out of control. We have now spent €1.7 billion on it. It may be more, depending on the sorting out of the claims. We were not the ones who appointed BAM. We are the ones who tried to bring in legislation in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I did not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I asked what is another million or tens of millions? The approach the Minister is taking is a hands-off approach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister has done this so many times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Secondment: Minister for Health (22 Jun 2023)
Pearse Doherty: I would like to make a concluding remark. There are people who were not here. I made it very clear that I was not calling into question the competence of the board. I made it clear that in relation to-----