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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: How many are settled and how many are outstanding?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: We had a figure previously of 200 claims having been settled out of 700.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: How many?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: I ask the Department to come back to us with the number of claims settled to date and the number still outstanding.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Could Mr. Watt repeat that, please? What is the value of the claims?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: €500 million..
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: I ask Mr. Watt to clarify-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: What Mr. Watt just clarified is that there were 920 claims with a value in the region of €500 million. In terms of the final cost, Mr. Watt has said today that he does not know the final cost at this stage and that is fair enough. Do we take it then that the Minister does not know the final cost either? He has no more information than Mr. Watt. Is that correct? Yes or no?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Okay. So the Minister does not know. That is okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Regarding the timeline for the completion of the project, the back end of 2024 is the latest date I have seen in documents we have been supplied. Is there a penalty in the contract if the project goes over time? I am not trying to cut Mr. Watt short but we are under time pressure because of health regulations. Is there a penalty if the contractor goes over the timeline?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Could Mr. Watt come back to us on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Yes, there were two lockdowns but there was also an extended period, back in the summer of 2020, when that site was closed down but every other site in Dublin was open and when public health regulations permitted sites to be open.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Leaving that aside, what I am interested in and what this committee is interested in is whether there is a penalty clause built into the contract covering delays on the part of the contractor. I ask Mr. Watt to come back to us with clarification on that because it is very important. We visited the site back in June, which was informative. We learned about the number of claims and what...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: I do not expect Mr. Watt to manage it on a day-to-day basis but as Secretary General-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: I have one other quick question. In relation to pharma companies, is there any funding, benefit-in-kind, sponsorship or money for research for any particular projects that may transfer to healthcare professionals, healthcare facilities, hospitals or any entity working in the public system? We spend in the region of €2.3 billion a year on drugs. It is a substantial amount of money....
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: The question is whether there has been discussion at senior level in the Department or with the Minister regarding those who have contracts with the public service or entities within the public service on whether they are receiving benefits, financial or otherwise, or benefit-in-kind from a drugs company. Is Mr. Watt aware of whether there has been a discussion in that regard – "Yes"...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: Anybody who has spoken, who does not want to speak again, should lower their hand. A number of speakers wish to contribute and we have a very short time left. I will allow speakers one minute each to ask a question. We were five minutes late in starting.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: If Mr. Watt is happy to answer the question, he can do so, but he is free to say if he does not want to answer it. If he is happy enough to answer it, I ask him to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health (16 Dec 2021) Brian Stanley: That is the point: Mr. Watt is free to respond or not.