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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Does Mr. Watt know whether the derogation for the process adopted by the hospital was asked for after the tender process was completed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: It was well before the tender.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Yes. I will go on to the public procurement rules and all the rest of it. Is there any question that underbidders or overbidders, or whatever they were, took issue with the process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: There is a derogation in circumstances in which the figures change. There was a change, not in the tender process but in the circumstances of all of this. The other bidders - if there were other bidders - would surely have had to be asked. It changed, and the Department stuck with the one contract and the one tender. Even though there had been a change, it did not revert back to any of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Where did the 2017 price of €983 million come from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: When the Minister was here before, he said that it had grown to €1.4 billion and that there was another €300 million in terms of contingency. That would bring it to €1.7 billion. Are the figures relative to contingency likely to change?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: That is what the contingency figure represents.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: In the context of construction or-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Thereafter, there will be a cost for equipment, IT, kitting the place out-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Are the officials aware of whether the €300 million includes kit-out? That is the question I am asking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: It will be built, equipped and ready to go at €1.7 billion. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: I need to confirm it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Should you not confirm it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: I want to go back to the beginning of the meeting to clarify something. We did our best to have the meeting and be constructive about it. Just to be helpful, we invited members of two other committees - the budgetary committee and the health committee - because of the number of invitations Mr. Watt had received. We notified the other committee members. In our correspondence to Mr. Watt,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: We will then invite Mr. Quinn separately. Is that an option?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: The role of the Comptroller and Auditor General comes within the remit of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform as well. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: The reports-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Could the Comptroller and Auditor General have been asked to do the report instead of PwC? Did the Department ever consider that, because of the fact that he is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: He did some reports on this anyway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: He did a value for money report.