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

Seán Fleming: I will put the blunt question, which is not unreasonable to ask. Should the entire board stand down? I am not saying that the project should be stopped but I must ask whether we have the right structure in place. We have the hospital board, steering committees, the HSE, the Department of Health, the Minister and then the Government. That is six steps down the line that responsibility is...

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

Seán Fleming: It is a valid question.

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

Seán Fleming: I am not making a recommendation, I am just posing a valid question

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

Seán Fleming: Okay. This is about the fourth dilemma in which we have found ourselves at this stage. We are stuck where we are stuck. Given that all that is happening and that it took quite a period to do the maximum price guarantee-----

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

Seán Fleming: I only put it as a question. How closely is the board monitoring the cost? I am not talking about cashflow and when it is certified. Are there monthly reports? What mechanism is in place when the contractor sees something that could require a change in design; in layman's English we call it an extra. Is the board getting reports on these every month or are we going to get another shock...

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

Seán Fleming: I understand that but has it been necessary to bring in any new software or is the internal audit function-----

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

Seán Fleming: Is Mr. Barry aware of any cost increases on the project in the past six months since the completion of the GMP report in November?

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

Seán Fleming: So he is on the ball.

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

Seán Fleming: What is the process for clearing them off the decks? Do we just wait for a big whack at the end?

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

Seán Fleming: The obvious question that people watching this now want me to ask is: in the past six months, what has been the quantum of claims submitted by the builder? I acknowledge that Mr. Barry has accepted none of them. It will be four years before the hospital will be open. We are six months on from the fact finding of the GMP report. Six months have passed. The board is obviously on top of it...

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

Seán Fleming: In the past six months.

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

Seán Fleming: Okay, that is good.

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

Seán Fleming: Okay, I thank Mr. Barry. It was important to ask that question.

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

Seán Fleming: I have stated that the board has not accepted any of these. I am not saying that just because a claim was submitted the board has to pay it. When Mr. Barry took over as chairman, what level of briefing did he get? He was really being given a poisoned chalice at that point. I know he appeared before the Joint Committee on Health to discuss his appointment. Following his appointment,...

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

Seán Fleming: Presumably one of the good reasons Mr. Barry was asked was because of his experience with the National Roads Authority.

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

Seán Fleming: People have spoken about the importance of having the GMP. I put this question to Mr. Breslin or perhaps the representatives from the HSE. What is the close-out date for the GMP?

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

Seán Fleming: Approximately.

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

Seán Fleming: That is my question. How or why did it move? We-----

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

Seán Fleming: The first sentence of the report states that it provides a look-back at the process up to the conclusion of the GMP on 1 November. Was there an earlier closing?

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

Seán Fleming: This is a moveable feast.