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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: No, Mr. Gunning does not need to respond to that. I was just adding up what he already told us.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: It is very difficult in a virtual setting, and we both probably sound really bad speaking over each other. The question I am asking is whether the delay is getting worse month by month because Mr. Gunning indicated this in his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: In his opening statement, Mr. Gunning said it is rising month on month. He did not say this was up to recently. What are we losing per month? Are we losing a month per month or a day per month? Will he put some flesh on these bones for us?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I am clear on that. Pending a more detailed report that Mr. Gunning hopes to be in a position to give us, using the benchmarks he set it will be May 2024 or later when the project is completed. I want to park that for a second. Deputy Munster asked a question and I would like it to be answered in the way I think she asked it. Of the 700 claims or 466 second claims, rather than the net...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: We know that. I received those figures. I do not want to cut Mr. Devine off, but I have very limited time.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: There are 700 claims at a cost of €300 million at the moment. Are the 466 cases included in the figure of 700?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. In terms of the dispute resolution, what have been the legal costs expended on the 466 cases that have been concluded?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: This is the detailed plan that I am aware was given to the Minister in recent months. That is not in the public domain, is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: What is the estimated cost of legal fees per annum?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: It is €10 million per year.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I have a final question for Mr. Gunning but the Comptroller and Auditor General may have a word on it too. Before phase B, as it was known, proceeded - I certainly would have had an issue with going with the existing contractor at the time without having a second tender process - I put on the record of the committee that the contractor in question was in litigation on nine other projects...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: The point is whether we must amend it.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (9 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: No, that is not the question I asked.
- Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I am glad to have this opportunity to make a few points on childcare. With regard to the systems and structures review I caution against any change to the county childcare committees, which have been serving us very well. More resourcing and supports for these structures is a better way to go rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. I was concerned when the Minister took office that this...
- Covid-19 (Mental Health): Statements (4 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Ministers of State for the opportunity to speak. As always, my worry is not the commitment of the Ministers of State to their job. I know personally that they are focused on the issue of mental health. The difficulty is that consecutive governments, certainly in my political career, have paid lip service to the issue of mental health when it came to resourcing. We had A Vision...
- Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: No, I am here in my own right. I understood that myself and Deputy Dillon were sharing time.
- Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I am happy to take it.
- Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: If he comes in, the Ceann Comhairle might point that out to me. I am glad to have the opportunity to engage with the Minister and Minister of State and make a few points. Obviously, it is common sense for us, as per the motion, to extend the EWSS without which the misery of the last nine or ten months would have been much worse for people throughout the country. Initially it was pitched at...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (3 Feb 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to assist the large number of third-level students who paid for student accommodation and were subsequently directed to stay at home under Government guidelines (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5425/21]