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Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I offer apologies on behalf of our Chairman and Vice Chair. A great deal is happening in the building today, so a number of members are unavoidably absent. I understand that they will attempt to make it to the meeting later. I will ask a couple of questions before other members contribute. Does the Department consider that the overall contract arrangements for the children's hospital...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: As the Committee of Public Accounts, an amount of our work involves taking a retrospective view in respect of best practice, value for money and efficiencies in contractual arrangements in various sectors. Is Mr. Tierney saying that the Department of Health engaged in a contract, the outworking of which will reach billions of euro in public expenditure, but the Department does not have an...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does that office engage with the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does it come to various Departments, including Mr. Tierney’s?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: The office comes to the Department of Health, tells it that it is reviewing the entire basis on which major infrastructural projects take place, points out that this Department has been engaged in the largest infrastructural contract and asks what its opinion is, but the Department says that it has none.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is it? That is what I am asking for.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: No. I asked what the Department’s position was in retrospect on the contract to which it tied the Irish people.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Will Mr. Tierney remind us of the original contractual value of the children’s hospital?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: The budget that was allocated.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Will Mr. Tierney distinguish between those two figures for me, please?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: At our meeting this time last year, I believe the estimated figure was in the region of €1.7 billion.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Mr. Tierney will recall from that meeting that there was general acceptance that the budget was going to be exceeded.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: If BAM was successful in a single one of its claims, that budget would be exceeded.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am speaking about where matters stood when we met this time last year. I will come to the issues that have arisen over the past 12 months later. Prior to inflation exceeding 4%, the budget had already been exceeded. Is that not fair to say?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: How many claims has BAM made?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: How many of those claims were lodged prior to April 2021?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does Mr. Gunning have that number for us?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: It is fair to say that over half of the claims were made prior to this time last year.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General have those figures to hand?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020 (16 Jun 2022)

Matt Carthy: Please do.