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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Finally, should this have been a lump sum contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Watt spoke about what, where, when and how. We are duty bound, as a committee, to ask the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: When this is distilled down, the project is 50% over budget. That is €450 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is taxpayers' money. It is a project that needs to happen. I have one or two questions for Mr. O'Brien. Regarding the overrun of €450 million, phase A is underground and phase B is overground. Has the underground project come in on budget? I am referring to the lump sum element of the project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: My final question concerns when the project came to the contracts committee in May 2015 and the board of the national children's hospital made a formal proposal. Was an indicative cost given for phase B, the overground phase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: What was the budget figure at that time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Was that based on a professional assessment? Had the board got professional quantity surveyors to come up with that price?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did the contracts committee get any opportunity to do any independent verification of those figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Who would that recommendation have been given to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Children's Hospital: Discussion with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (7 Mar 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Did the authorisation come from the contracts committee? Who did it come from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I welcome the Minister and his colleagues. I note the impact that a hard Brexit would have and I know that further financial work is being done by the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, and the Department. The Minister says that tax revenues would be lower and expenditure would rise and he says he is looking at the potential that the growth rates in 2019 could go to 2.7% from an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are preliminary discussions around the potential of a hard Brexit and the contingencies being put in place around possible supports to aid export-oriented industries such as agriculture and manufacturing already under way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister referred to financial services firms having contingency plans in place by March 2019. What level of engagement has there been between his Department, the Central Bank and these firms? When does he anticipate that they will come back to the Department if they have such contingency plans in place? Our financial services sector is important to us, especially if there is a hard Brexit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will move on to the children's hospital. Everyone in Ireland thinks that we need to have the children's hospital. Sight of that may have been lost. People are right to question the sheer scale of the spending. What work has the Minister been able to do in his Department to quantify what he expects the final cost of the children's hospital to be? What cost has been incurred on the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does the Minister know what work has been completed? Is the underground work nearly complete? Has that been brought to the Minister's attention?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the Minister satisfied with his Department's engagement with the hospital group, the Department of Health and the HSE? What is his view on managing the project in the future from his perspective in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister spoke about contingencies. The expected cost is €1.4 billion. Has the board come back to outline the likelihood of any specific contingency happening? An issue with the project from a public perspective, which we are being asked about, is how much it will cost. When will we reach the point where we know definitively what the final cost of the project will be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are all aspects of the tendering process concluded or is anything still outstanding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it correct that one particular contractor is involved in the revised tenders?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: There are revised tenders for one contractor.