Results 61-80 of 1,038,168 for in 'Dáil debates' OR in 'Committee meetings' (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:Niamh Smyth OR speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh)
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I am concerned about this. In the contract that the Department and the OGP oversaw, is it correct to say that there is only retention of €2.5 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is there a risk that the contractor might see that amount as small change, given the scale of this project?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Does Mr. Devine agree that that is a weak lever, given the history of this project? There has been insufficient capacity, there have not been enough people on site, there have been delays and there is an absence of a programme to bring it to completion. Each time the board has appeared before us, questions have been raised about the work programme. That programme would show what stages...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: But the €2.5 million might not be keeping the contractor awake at night, given the scale of the project.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Has the contractor indicated to the board when it will have the work programme? Mr. Gunning stated that there was a conversation on this matter in the past week. Before attending this meeting, the witnesses would have tried to get as much information on dates and so forth as they could and be briefed on what was happening. Has the contractor indicated when it will have the work programme?...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Has the contractor even suggested a date or timeline? Will it be two months or three months?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Please do. There was a substantial completion date of August 2022, but that is history now. We are now in May 2024, and not only do we not have a firm date for substantial completion, never mind dates for commissioning and operation, but we do not have a plan or programme – call it what you like – from the builder setting out when that first date might be. The builder has not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I take it that Mr. Gunning spoke to senior people in BAM in the past week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: And he does every week. He must have told them that he was going before the Committee of Public Accounts and that one of the main questions would have to do with when the project would be finished. Was their reply to him that they could not even give him a programme of work?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: But Mr. Gunning asked them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: When Mr. Gunning asked them where the evidence was, what did they say?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: When?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is terrible that it has not supplied it, even at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: As soon as they give the board a programme and things become clearer, will Mr. Gunning come back to the committee with an update?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: That will depend on whether we are here in September.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is in the hands of the Government as to whether there will still be a public accounts committee then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: To clarify, the figure has been settled at this stage. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: There are two fairly substantial ones-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Can that be supplied to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.