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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The HSE is almost at the point of appointing the team, but we are getting there. Is that correct? I will move on to the overspend. I have several questions to seek clarification. Mr. Breslin said figures had been presented to the Committee of Public Accounts that were somewhat helpful, but there is still some confusion about the matter. Perhaps either the Minister or Mr. Breslin might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: That is my point. Is the figure of €637 million the original tender from BAM, plus the other two contractors, namely, the mechanical contractor and the electrical contractor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: I have that information. At the Committee of Public Accounts I asked about the figure of €630 million. The overall tender was from the three contractors. The figure for BAM was €432 million, but the estimated cost is now €556 million, or an overspend of €120 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: That means that there was haggling for some time, as seems to be evident from the minutes of the meetings of the steering group of the paediatric board and the Department. There was haggling over the guaranteed maximum price which took a great deal of time. The minutes of the meeting in April suggest there were difficulties with the guaranteed maximum price, yet it took until November to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: The minutes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: We will have a report from PwC that I assume will look into this matter in more detail. The minutes of the meeting of the steering group on 23 April 2018 stated a number of things. When I asked Mr. Breslin at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts when he had first become aware of any serious overrun, he said it was in November and that the Minister had been informed at the same time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Was that the guaranteed maximum price? From my reading of the minutes of the meetings of the steering group, from November 2017 up to April 2018, there were issues with the accommodation unit. There were concerns about the philanthropic funding and car parking. These issues were arising, on the one hand, and, on the other, there was the issue of the guaranteed maximum price.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Let me finish. In the minutes of the meeting of the steering group in April it is stated approval of the guaranteed maximum price by the end of June was significantly at risk. They also state the Exchequer capital budget was already under significant pressure. The expectation was that Ronald McDonald House would pay for the accommodation unit. Why was none of this reported at that point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Will the Department supply them to the rest of us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: As always.

JobPath Programme: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: JobPath was described today as short-term, coercive and ruthless by several academics from Waterford Institute of Technology. A submission was presented to Deputy Brady by over 29 community-based groups who run the community employment scheme. They have a similar view of the scheme. People who use the system and who use other systems have a view of JobPath that is the polar opposite of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (5 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the status of €4.75 million funding announced in November 2018 for the construction of a second cardiac catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford; if it will be impacted by the proposed cuts in capital funding by the HSE as a result of the cost overrun in the construction of the new national children’s hospital; and if it is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Powers (5 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: 270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the role of An Garda Síochána in the supervision of a service (details supplied) in view of recent online posts in which instruction was given to users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5070/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

David Cullinane: I cannot accept the responses to the questions I put. The sum of €50 million alone will come from the capital expenditure in health this year as a consequence of the overrun. The Tánaiste is missing the point that we were informed - Deputy Howlin and other Oireachtas Members in the south east - that the money was already committed to and was there. Now we are being told that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

David Cullinane: I did not mislead the House. I put the question myself to the Secretary General of the Department at the Committee of Public Accounts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

David Cullinane: The Tánaiste will get a chance to come back. He is saying one thing and the head of the Department of Health is saying something else. History teaches me that I do not know who to believe on this issue. We have been fighting for the second cath lab for so long. In relation to the overspend, here is what we also learnt at the Committee of Public Accounts today.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

David Cullinane: On top of the €1.4 billion there will now be an additional €75 million in ICT costs, an additional €52 million for electronic records, an additional €86 million for children's health integration, and an additional €40 million for the Mater campus. The entire project is based on the potential of getting €150 million from the private sector from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

David Cullinane: What we know is that some capital projects are under review and the Tánaiste and the Minister for Health are not being entirely clear with people as to which projects they are and what projects will be delayed or scrapped. The Tánaiste needs to be very clear with people, not just in the south east but across the State.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

David Cullinane: A process of review.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

David Cullinane: But it is being reviewed.