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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: When?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is terrible that it has not supplied it, even at this stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: As soon as they give the board a programme and things become clearer, will Mr. Gunning come back to the committee with an update?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: That will depend on whether we are here in September.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is in the hands of the Government as to whether there will still be a public accounts committee then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: To clarify, the figure has been settled at this stage. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: There are two fairly substantial ones-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Can that be supplied to the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I ask for the figure in respect of the liquidated damages.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Gunning have a rolling figure for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Was that included in the contingency or headroom in the final contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Could the legal row cost more than the amount that is collected?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: No, it certainly would not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: We are talking about the 2022 accounts. It is now 2024, not that we should toast that fact. Note 2 in the report by the Comptroller and Auditor General states that at the end of 2022, the amount involved was €1.24 billion. Note 8 indicates further capital commitments of €217 million. We know that €40 million was allocated to get the board through that Christmas. Why...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: The committee deals with historical figures. When those historical figures have cobwebs on them, it makes matters way more difficult. This is particularly the case for this project because we could not determine whether or not it was going in the way it should have gone. We knew there was slippage all over the place. I will just say how unsatisfactory that was.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: On the contract, because tendering is a very expensive process, contractors will only engage if they think they have a fighting chance of winning. There may be a contractor, for example, that went in low and made up the balance in claims. If that was the profile of how a contractor was conducting things, is that considered in the context of tendering for further projects? Is there any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: Even when there is that profile, I just-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I know. There has to be an opportunity to challenge that. Mr. Quinn is talking about this tendering process being Europe-wide. If there is a significant flaw or a way that people can actually work or warp it to their advantage by the way they exploit loopholes or are very litigious, surely, that has to be challenged, even at European level. Have other countries looked at that? Is there...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Catherine Murphy: I predict we are going to be repeating these mistakes, including in the building of the new national maternity hospital in the wrong place. While that is a completely different matter, when you look at the census of population and the demographics, babies are being born on the other side of the city, on the west side of Dublin and the M50, where the demographics suggest that a maternity...