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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: -----fully is alarming. The route taken was to get a derogation for a two-stage process. A report was even done on the advantages and disadvantages of going down that road. One of the disadvantages identified was that it could lead to cost overruns if capturing the scope of the project and the bill of quantities accurately was not done correctly. That is what has transpired in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: My final question will be a quick one. In Mr. Barry's role with the NRA, I presume he was involved with many capital projects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: This is not a question to try to catch him out. How many of those projects had cost overruns and, if any did, how did he deal with them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Chairperson Designate (13 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: One would also presume that there would have been a very strict monitoring process.

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Many unanswered questions remain. I do not even believe all of the questions about this project have been asked to date, but we do know that the information on it is being drip-fed, which is regrettable. It has caused more confusion and public unease and certainly eroded the confidence some have in the ability of the State to manage major capital projects. Let me begin at the start. We...

Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2019: First Stage (12 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2019: First Stage (12 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide that abnormally low tender bids for construction works with a contract equal to or above the EU threshold for public works are regulated, and disqualified if their low level is not adequately explained to the relevant authority, and that performance in prior public contracts be grounds for exclusion from participation...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: We will ask Mr. Watt why Mr. Quinn is not here. I think I am up first so I will be asking him that direct question. Mr. Quinn gave written evidence to this committee on 25 February and that came on headed paper from the Office of Government Procurement.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: It did not come from him as an individual or as a member of the hospital development board. It came on the headed paper of the Office of Government Procurement. He made a number of assertions in that written correspondence, which I personally would have liked to have tested today given that he is the person in charge of Government procurement. As far as I am concerned, this is the meeting...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: As a member of the committee, I heard it through the media.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will stick to my time limit because I will be at the finance committee as well after dinner. I can follow up on any questions we miss out on.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: It never ends. May I first ask why Mr. Watt did not think it was appropriate for Mr. Quinn to be here today as one of his accompanying officials?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Was their involvement not at the initiation of Mr. Quinn?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: No?

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: We wanted Mr. Quinn here today because he gave written evidence to the committee on 25 January which we wanted to test. I put it to Mr. Watt that contact with the GCCC was initiated by Mr. Quinn but Mr. Watt said that was not the case. The written evidence states the engagement between the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board began at his initiation as a member of that board in...

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Quinn is also head of Government procurement.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Mr. Watt's opening statement does not even reference the national children's hospital, which is bizarre, given that it is the largest capital project in the history of the State. It will be the most costly and has one of the largest overruns so I do not get how Mr. Watt does not even reference it. It is like there is a determination not to discuss it today with the Committee of Public...

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: I find it bizarre that Mr. Quinn is not here, given his unique position as head of the Office of Government Procurement and the fact that he was appointed by the Minister for Health in the public interest to serve on the development board.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Not with Mr. Quinn. He has not appeared before any committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Oversight and Implementation of Capital Projects and the Role of Public Officials on State Boards: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Office of Government Procurement (7 Mar 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: He wrote to the committee giving evidence as the head of the Office of Government Procurement, not as a member of the board.