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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Can we go back to it and very specifically-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I want them to tell us exactly what the other triggers are. The ultimate cost of this hospital will be determined by a number of things. It will also be determined by the number of counterclaims that can be made where they have not abided by their side of the contract. We have both been pursuing this particular line. I do not want a general letter like this. I want the specifics in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: In the meantime, there is information I want to know. This correspondence is very short and does not give us the kind of detail we need and that we would have got from the members of the board had they been in front of us. They need to give us the detail of what the other triggers are, apart from the completion date. I want that information in detail, including how many triggers there are,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Some local authorities are providing grants for stoves.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: The Department must have some of that information in aggregate.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: The figure I had in my head all along was relating to the two projects, that is, the car park and the pharmacy. The pharmacy has been built on the roof of the existing block and it is on private land.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: However, it is on the private St. Vincent's hospital land.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: All of it will be on the St. Vincent's hospital land. We certainly need to query the difference between the cost of the pharmacy and the car parking and what else has been spent. We need to get more detail on that. Another thing jumps out at me from the letter. We have just been talking about something very similar. It states: As the construction contracts for a number of these works are...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It would have to have a budget.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I will finish by saying this. It is not that long ago that we had a piece of correspondence that talked about learning lessons from previous projects. I cannot remember where it came from but it jumped out at me. Would we have the benefit of learning lessons for this hospital from the children's hospital? It is not obvious how we learn lessons if the process is opaque, which this appears...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I raised this matter initially because it is a bugbear of mine. I thank the Secretary General for the comprehensive reply. I can see some of the issues involved, including the sheer scale of the information which exists. This is precisely the issue I was trying to draw attention to. If we compare our approach in the Republic to that taken in Northern Ireland, it is possible to walk into...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I think we should write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for an explanation regarding the Teckal procurement exemption. There is a difference between a public good and a market good. Looking at the organisations that have used these data, including the Central Statistics Office, CSO, I would have thought there is a strong argument that this endeavour is a public good....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Yes. Some of this relates to the Eversheds report. There is a second Eversheds report, which relates to the actors in "Fair City". We should ask RTÉ to provide us with that report and whether an in-house legal team was used to deal with this matter or if it was a legal team from outside. We should also ask what the cost of this undertaking was and whether the findings have fed into...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: We should have that report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I recently raised the issue of Horse Sport Ireland and the Greenogue facility. I would like to speak about something that has happened since then. It has walked back from it. The matter is no longer being pursued. This information came to light last week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: It is not the same. It is very distinct. I am conscious that we will have a report that will dictate our agenda once the Comptroller and Auditor General issues it. Will that be in September?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: We can judge it then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: Did the Comptroller and Auditor General say the audit he is doing is due at the end of August or September?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: I mean the one on the children's hospital development board.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: We should try to timetable the meeting so the report is available and we have more information.