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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The Comptroller and Auditor General has given the Department a clean bill of health so I do not have anything else to say. I cannot find any loopholes here. The Department's representatives are free.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Bobby Aylward: He is looking forward to being 100.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Mr. Fraser told me there were eight staff.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (7 Feb 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Deputy MacSharry must have a good source of information.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Feb 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I wish to add my voice to this matter, which has been ongoing. There are parents in my constituency in Kilkenny who consistently make representations to me on this issue. It is time for the Government to give us an answer on when this drug will be available. It has been pushed down the road and these parents have children who are suffering. They need this drug sooner rather than later....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 73. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve and enhance cardiac care services for those living in the south east; if he believes there is an equal provision of cardiac services in the region in comparison to the rest of the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5378/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Charges (5 Feb 2019)

Bobby Aylward: 659. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce an incremental instalment payment plan to assist persons in paying the cost of water connection charges that would be considered excessive or are in excess of a predetermined threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5211/19]

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Mr. Breslin has given an awful lot of figures.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The more questions we ask the more frustrated we become. I make the observation that I find it hard to believe we have witnesses who have been project managers for this scheme from day one and when we ask them a question, they have to go back to using a pen and paper to make up numbers. That is unbelievable for professionals in front of the committee. They knew that they were going to be...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: The witnesses are professionals and should be on top of their jobs. I am businessman and a farmer. I know that it is a big project and that I am simplifying it, but the witnesses are not on top of the figures after all of the questions that have been asked of them. They still have to go back and frustrate us-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: All the ordinary taxpayer - the ordinary Joe and Mary and lay people - sees is a figure that started off at €640 million and went up to €900 million, €1.4 billion and €1.7 billion. Even today no one can give a guarantee that it will not go up to €2 billion. No one said it would not go up to €2 billion when the question was asked twice by my...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Can I get an answer to my question from someone before I go?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: Just one minute ago Mr. Pollock mentioned that the issue of sprinklers had come up as the project was moving along. Where is the professionalism if the board only learned about this as the project moved along? Would they not have been part of the original plan before the board ever sat down to build the hospital? Would it not have looked at what was involved and what the costs would be,...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I know that the figure has gone up.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I welcome everyone back after lunch. I hope we will be in better form after the break. The Mater campus write-off of €40 million seems like a lot of money. What did that €40 million entail?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: I know that but why would it be €40 million? It seems like a lot of money and never a sod was turned.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: It seems like an awful lot of money and more waste to spend €40 million before coming to another site eventually. That is political I suppose. It was political wrangling that did that. I start again on the external review which I believe is an independent review. It is sitting at the moment. Who set it up and what is its remit?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: They are professional people who will complete it.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: They will look at the costs to date and over the project as laid out. They will analyse the whole lot and come back. If they find anything wrong, are critical or make recommendations, what standing will that have with the witnesses as the project goes forward? If they say a lot of mistakes were made or identify a waste of money or resources, what power will they have in their...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Bobby Aylward: How long will it take for the review to report back to us? When will we have the review?