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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: 236. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE’s plans to conduct research on the prevalence and use of cannabinoids in vapes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34427/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: 251. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase capacity in HSE audiology clinics; if consideration is being given to offering adult medical card holders the option to be assessed and treated by community audiologists under the Department of Social Protection’s treatment benefit scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34516/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: May I pick up on something Mr. Gunning said about the phase B instruction? I think we are all aware of that. Are there any damages for delay in the original contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: There are no unliquidated damages up to this point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay, but, obviously, if the phase B case is successful, those liquidated damages in the contract go to the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: It would be very big because that is the chief point at which the State might recoup some of its costs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Is the liquidated damages sum comparable to the 15% Mr. Gunning talked about in his opening statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I know they are different.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: To be clear, how are the liquidated damages set out in the contract? Is it a particular sum per day or-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: There is a calculator, so there is a formula.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Do we have access to the formula to see it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Mr. Gunning will have a think about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I know, but there are deviations from that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: To stay on that issue, Mr. Gunning stated: "The NPHDB has applied all the levers available within the public works contract to get BAM to deliver on its obligations." Does he feel that those levers are enough?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: It is not a question for Mr. Gunning. It is possibly a question for the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform as to whether contractors that behave in a certain way are precluded from future contracts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes. It is a question we should really be talking about more. To be clear on one other point before I move to a different topic, Mr. Gunning said BAM was meant to produce a compliant programme for this Monday but that it has-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Last Friday, and now he expects it next Monday.