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Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: Did that take long? Was everything shoved on to the individual?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: Of course.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: It slowed down the process.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: No one made any reference to this in previous meetings.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have no issue with it, but I did not know there was such a level of adjudication by an external person during that period.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: It sounds like the board had a contractor on site with which it did not work well, given that everything had to go to adjudication. It sounds like the board had a design team that got it badly wrong and had the board locked in. Is there any good news in respect of anyone the board was dealing with? Mr. Barry can hear what is coming out now. The builder had a problem. The board could...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: It does not sound like it has been a smooth process so far.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: I have seen that chart. Not everyone will fully accept that. It has come at a major price.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: I think the point Mr. Breslin made was that part of the problem was the decision to commence the work because that is why the board went for phase 2. Mr. Barry will be able to answer this question. He said this is the first time we have had this two-phase project in the public sector but it is a regular feature-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is why I am asking Mr. Barry this question. Will he elaborate on his knowledge of cases where this two-stage process or a variation thereof, with a contractor is on-site, has applied in the private sector? Are there contracts where the contractor was removed at stage 2? Is it normal in the private sector that, once the contractor gets on-site, then 99 times out of 100 the firm will...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: There we go.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: People can close the gate.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: You mentioned a couple of hours ago that you cannot take previous experience into account.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: Okay. There is another general matter that cropped up years ago and will crop up again. Have you a mechanism to ensure that subcontractors are getting paid for the work? Ireland has been plagued with the problem of the guy who does the last part of the job not being paid and he probably does not even know who the main contractor is. You know what I am referring to.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: What type of mechanism do you have? How many will be working on this project at peak?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: Many of those are individual small contractors who are way down the supply chain in terms of links with the main contractor. Will you discuss that? At the end of this we do not want to have a line of people saying they did not get paid. What can you do? I realise it is not easy but you must do something. As you know, subcontractors take a level of comfort from knowing that they are going...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: Of course you did.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Curran wishes to speak. This is a big issue and it is relevant to the ordinary people working on the site.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: This was Department of Public Expenditure and Reform legislation.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)

Seán Fleming: I was possibly the party spokesperson on public expenditure and reform when it was brought through.