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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: In an ideal world, it would be someone from BAM sitting in Mr. Gunning’s seat. I am sure Mr. Gunning would love if someone from BAM were sitting in his seat, just as we would prefer to have someone from BAM in here. From what I am hearing - we also heard this at our previous engagement, as colleagues said earlier - the number of staff who have been allocated to this project has...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I appreciate that but the costs when this hospital was first mooted are unrecognisable from what they are today. I understand that there are physical changes - we saw this when we were on site - and I accept that needs in the design have changed as well. Mr. Devine made the point earlier about the 23,000 new drawings and so on. I appreciate that things change. Anyone who has been involved...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: We wish you well with that. We hope not to be in this position again with further increases. I have another question for Mr. Gunning. His opening statement referred to the fact that the board is co-ordinating the 52-bedroom Ronald McDonald House. How does that fit into the project? It is obviously a not-for-profit building and organisation. It is not incorporated into the actual physical...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: It is not as big as some of the others.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Am I right in saying that there is underground connectivity between the hospital and the house itself?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Would I also be right in saying that there are approximately 600 car parking spaces allocated at the children’s hospital and the families in those 52 units will be able to avail of car parking spaces?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: Yes and it is essential. I am aware of the house and of the necessity of those facilities but I just wanted to see how it linked in. Mr. Gunning has explained that BAM did the underground work, which would tie in the State but the State has also invested €18 million or thereabouts in the project.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: From the perspective of the public accounts committee, there is a lot more in this, as I am sure the development board can appreciate. A number of notes have been requested for today and going forward. I would suggest that the committee engages again with the development board, CHI and the Department of Health in the next couple of months. It is important to do that given where the project...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Cormac Devlin: That is another issue all together.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I concur with Deputy Devlin. The next time we are here, if we are - Deputy Devlin probably knows more about that than the three of us, although I would say the lads here are looking for an election - CHI should be here along with the development board because there is an overlap now. Before the break I asked Mr. Gunning how many conciliation decisions there have been since the end of...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: It cannot be a huge number. Mr. Gunning should probably know this.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I do not understand why we cannot be told about these decisions. The board knows about them, as does the contractor. I presume Mr. Gunning has full confidence in the conciliator. Does he? For the record, Mr. Gunning is nodding. If the contractor knows, the development board knows and the conciliator knows, then why does the taxpayer or the Houses of the Oireachtas not know?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: When will it be revealed to us and to the public?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Gunning has told us about others.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: We might some advice on this because there are huge sums of money involved. I suggest that we ask parliamentary legal counsel or others for advice as regards why we cannot get this information. If the contractor knows, the delivery board knows and the conciliator, in whom Mr. Gunning has full confidence, has made a determination, it seems a bit odd that we cannot get that information.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: The conciliator has made a decision.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Has the conciliator made a decision?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: According to Mr. Gunning's own table, the next step is to go to the High Court.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: If the conciliator has made a recommendation, that is the final recommendation.