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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)

Bobby Aylward: Most members want to dwell on it when asking questions, though.

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)

Bobby Aylward: They cannot be silenced on it.

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)

Bobby Aylward: Is it not up to every member to pick out the projects to discuss, though?

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)

Bobby Aylward: I will not go over everything that has been said so I will try to be less than ten minutes. I cannot leave here today without asking something about the hospital because it is the subject of the day that is on everyone's mind. To carry on from what Deputy O'Connell asked, why was only the preliminary cost known? We have some expertise here now. Why did those involved not know that costs...

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)

Bobby Aylward: To simply call them overruns is too------

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)

Bobby Aylward: We know that the Department of Health is responsible for this project but the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform also plays a part in public expenditure. Where does the buck stop? What power has the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to come in and say that as it is responsible for the money since the project started at €900 million and now it is at €1.5...

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)

Bobby Aylward: Yes I know that.

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)

Bobby Aylward: The issue of the children's hospital has been controversial for some 20 years now. There was the Mater site, then there was Crumlin, then it came to the St. James's site and now there is talk of a new greenfield site out in the western environs, which many people still believe should be the site because they maintained that the St. James's site can cater for only half the project. There...

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)

Bobby Aylward: But the Government is not telling us where the cuts will be.

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)

Bobby Aylward: Somebody is going to suffer in the short term because €1 billion is a lot of money. Somebody is going to suffer now. Perhaps it is a project that should have been going ahead but because of this overrun on the children's hospital it will have the brakes put on. The money has to be got somewhere and somebody is going to suffer. That is logic and we cannot deny that. We are not...

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)

Bobby Aylward: I am worried about my constituency. I am worried about the sewerage system that was promised for Mullinavat. It was supposed to there next year for my own little parish and it could now be put back three or four years. I give this as an example. Politics are all local, as Mr. Watt will know himself. We all have connections locally as well.

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)

Bobby Aylward: I want to ask the witnesses about broadband. The Taoiseach has said that the quote for broadband, which has been mentioned already, could be a multiple of the original price. As the Department with responsibility for the money and spend perhaps Mr. Watts will comment on this given that the broadband scheme that was not rolled out in the past five years might not be rolled out for another...

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)

Bobby Aylward: But if it is a case that the cost for broadband is a multiple of the original quote, are we back to square one as we are with the children's hospital? If we start with a roll-out of a broadband network for €500 million could we end up paying €2 billion? This is being flippant about money that is saving us nothing: €1 billion is still €1 billion.

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)

Bobby Aylward: I am asking the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform if the costs for the broadband network are going to rise 400%. Surely the Department, if it is responsible for the money and how it is spent, has a comment to make on that. I know the Department has a responsibility for the money overall. For the benefit of the public who are listening to this meeting what is Mr. Watts's comment...

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)

Bobby Aylward: It is about spending the money. I follow the money again.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (7 Mar 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 34. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the additional jobs created in 2018 in the south-east region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11234/19]

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)

Bobby Aylward: Was it not the Government?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Conventions (6 Mar 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to ratify the Lanzarote Convention; the timeline for the ratification of the convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11087/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (6 Mar 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 208. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive to provide a status report of plans for refurbishment, renovation and new building works at a hospital (details supplied) as committed to in the capital plan; the position regarding the overall security of the timeline of the project in view of the overspend on the national children’s hospital; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (6 Mar 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive to provide a status report on the progress of the proposed local health centre planned at a location (details supplied); the position regarding the overall security of the timeline of the project in the view of the overspend on the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...