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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: I return to a point raised by Mjr. Miley, namely, that a sum of €250 million is unpaid. From where does that figure come?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Is that €10 million per year for management?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: The management of various projects which are not now to be undertaken.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: The €250 million figure to which Mr. Miley refers is actually part of another contract; it is not €250 million that is sitting there to be used freely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Okay, that is fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: These are all questions and clarifications. I will answer Mr. Hennebry's questions at the end.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: It is. I do not have the figures before me, but we were given them the last day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Yes. I am just trying to have some things clarified. With whom did Ms Tina Walsh have a contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Directly with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Ms Walsh's contract with Sammon clearly specifies that the goods will not return to the ownership of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: This is a question for all of the delegates. According to the NDFA, there was an arrangement within the overall contract that each month it would ensure the subcontractors were paid. The people here are subcontractors to the subcontractors. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Why is it that the payments were stalled? Were the companies collecting each month or were they not being paid each and it all built up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: It is a stalling tactic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Was that everyone's experience?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Mr. Hennebry has told us that he has 60 subcontractors who have not been paid and that figure is growing. He estimates that it currently represents a debt of €14 million for his company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Is Mr. Hennebry in a position to quantify it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: If it can be done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Someone else mentioned communication with the NDFA. Has it contacted the people here, rather than they having to contact it? What contact have they had with the Department of Education and Skills or the NDFA, if any?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: Representatives of fhe NDFA were before the committee this week. I think the only outcome was that their attitude infuriated the members present; it certainly infuriated me. I am sure it also drove the delegates to the same conclusion that it was not fit for purpose. They said two things which I ask the delegates to consider. It was said that it has two reasons for its existence. One is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
John McGuinness: We can do that. We might also seek clarification on the €250 million. We are trying to establish a focus here, to represent as best we can the views that we have heard today. Ms Siobhán Kelly wishes to say something. I will also call Senator Murnane O'Connor but first I will call on Deputy Deering.