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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)
Seán Fleming: Sorry, I am chairing the meeting-----
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I am chairing the meeting and it is clear neither the Department nor Mr. Watt had a role in commissioning the cost review process. Am I correct "Yes" or "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)
Seán Fleming: That has answered that. With regard to the inflation issue, Mr. O'Brien answered in general about contracts under the organisation but because it gave a derogation, this contract does not come under Mr. Watt's chairmanship. Is that correct?
- 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)
Seán Fleming: So the people we have to address the question about the additional inflation - and it is obvious there will be increases - are on the hospital board and they are due back here in the coming weeks. The next speaker is Deputy Alan Kelly who has ten minutes.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy is referring to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Watt to send that on, in writing, to the committee. We will take a short break.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Before I call the next speaker, Deputy Catherine Murphy, I have a duty, as Chairman of this committee, to make the following clear. I will read from the invitation that the committee approved and agreed and which was issued to Mr. Robert Watt.I wish to confirm that the Committee requests your attendance at a meeting to discuss the Department's historical and continuing role for the oversight...
- 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)
Seán Fleming: It is a legitimate-----
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I hope people are listening. I have said the national children's hospital is No. 2 on the list. I just want to make sure, however, that the meeting at least barely reflects the invitation that was issued, which was broader than one topic. At the end of the meeting I do not want any reasonable observer to be able to say we had a meeting solely on the national children's hospital. Yes, 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)
Seán Fleming: Fine, but I am making it clear-----
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I am just saying the committee should have chosen to issue a different invitation if it was the committee's intention solely to discuss the national children's hospital.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Deputy Aylward is right, but I have to conduct-----
- 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)
Seán Fleming: That is all I am doing.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: I said the national children's hospital is on the list and is within the remit of this meeting-----
- 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)
Seán Fleming: -----but I am just saying, as Chairman, I want to achieve a balance, and this meeting must be looked at in its totality when it concludes.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: The next speaker is Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: We are on time. We have several other people who would like to get in and we have agreed to finish at 1 p.m. I ask the Deputy to make a quick 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)
Seán Fleming: I have to go to Deputy Cullinane who must stick to the ten-minute limit if we are to get out on time.
- 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)
Seán Fleming: Yes.