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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: May we have a breakdown? There is no breakdown of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: No, there are 38 cases and six went to the WRC. We have a figure for that, and then for the others we do not have any breakdown of the nature of the cases or what they were settled for, and CHI worked with the State Claims Agency. Would it be possible to get details on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: It is the nature of the claims.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: What Mr. Fitzpatrick is telling me now would be helpful for us. Lots of us are learning about this all the time, and that is only one tiny aspect. I return to the paediatric board and move to the children's hospital. When does it envisage winding up? It was a special purpose vehicle set up for a specific purpose, to build ,design and get a hospital.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: After 18 months-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: -----the board will be redundant. It is just to understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I will not have time to go into the minutiae of anything and the witnesses have given figures. Those figures are on the record, but when I look at them, it is less than €1 billion to build the hospital. The additional sum relates to the board, the design and consultants appointed. Is that fair? It is almost a 50:50 balance.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Lovely. It would be helpful to get a breakdown of all of that.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Many things have changed since then.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: On a rough estimate it seems to be nearly balanced. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe it is 60:40. I am looking at the administration costs, however, and the costs are rising all of the time. I understand inflation and the different reasons, but the board was set up and then there is an oversight body after that under the Department, which I have not even got to. Maybe at some stage we might get...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Gunning is lucky I am out of time.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the witnesses for staying. As regards the €2 million per month, is it Mr. Gunning's best estimate that it will be ongoing until the completion of the programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: That will no be longer necessary.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: As regards the board, is there a board functioning now for Children's Hospital Ireland?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: How many are on the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: How often are they meeting?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: What about the interaction between that and the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board? How often do they meet? What is the communication like there?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: What is the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: ----- and Ms Nugent has no concerns about that.