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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: When was the €1.7 billion all incorporated estimate made?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: Regarding the report that has been subject to much discussion, I think the phrase Mr. Watt used in his letter to us on 19 May, was that it was "an analysis" by the NPHDB. Is that how he would describe this report?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: In the letter on 19 May, Mr. Watt stated that it had been submitted to his Department for "independent analysis and scrutiny". Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: Who carried out that independent analysis and scrutiny of the analysis by the hospital board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: Therefore we have a report from the hospital board and then was there a separate report from the process that Mr. Watt just described or a track changes-type document? What form did the review take?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: I understand Mr. Watt is saying he cannot provide the committee with that report. Is he confident that there is nothing in those documents that would warrant him revising the €1.7 billion figure that he has given us here today?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: We know that some of those factors are absolutely realisable, particularly inflation because we are in an inflationary period. Will the figure be higher?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: But there is a reality that number will not be met.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: It is incredibly worrying that there is documentation that is not being furnished to the Committee on Public Accounts and that even at this late stage, we do not have even a guesstimate as to what the final cost of this will be. On that basis, does Mr. Watt accept the premise of the contract through which the project is being delivered was fundamentally flawed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: I did not say the process; I referred to the contractual basis on which the hospital is based. Does Mr. Watt accept that is flawed?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: I mean the contract itself that has resulted in a project that is now due to be delivered in 2024, which is beyond the original timescale-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: ------and within two years of that, Mr. Watt is unable to provide any assurance of the final cost. Does he agree that when dealing with a contract on that basis, that is a flawed position that we are all in?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: That is not what I am saying. What I am saying is that we are now in a situation where we are in the middle of construction and Mr. Watt, as Secretary General of the Department responsible, cannot provide a guesstimate as to what the total cost will be. We all recognise that there will be issues. Chairman, how long do I have left?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: Very briefly ------
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: My point is not that I was looking for a definitive figure but for an estimate, which cannot be provided. Mr. Watt knows that this committee-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: I find that extraordinary coming from a former Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. He is saying that it would be impossible to develop a capital investment programme at all if we are to say that every contract is meaningless in terms of -----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: And we accept that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: We are dealing with a project in which the original estimate cost was €800 million and which now is above €1.7 billion and Mr. Watt is saying that we cannot have an estimate of the final cost. I consider that to be a flawed process and I do not believe there is any other capital project
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: ------ where, at this late stage, we could not have a guess as to its final cost.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Matt Carthy: I have said on a number of occasions to tell me what the final estimated cost. I think that is a fair question. Unfortunately, we did not receive a fair answer.