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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Did it?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Was it only a little bit off the point? It was the very point that the Government picked out to justify proceeding. I do not expect our guests to comment on that but the official commentary from Government pointed to the PwC conclusion. That is interesting.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The vote is at 1.45 p.m.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We have been here for a long time.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The board was constituted anew in 2013. Did any of the delegates serve on the board prior to 2013?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Did any of the board members present serve prior to 2013?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They have served since 2013.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: They were reappointed in 2018 by the Minister.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Barry stated that the board members were reappointed in 2018 for five years.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: However, some members will not serve for the full five years.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Why is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Have they indicated their intentions?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: How many members have informally indicated to Mr. Barry that they will leave the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Do they have particular expertise?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: This was a competency-based board. It was set up with competent people to make competent decisions. Mr. Quinn had a particular role. I am interested in it because there will be a similar role in regard to broadband. We will have our man - I presume it will be a man, although I would prefer it to be a woman in order to get gender balance - watching the public purse in regard to broadband....
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that. If he cannot answer the question, I will not argue with him. Has he learned anything which he would tell the Government regarding the appointment of a person to a role similar to his on the new company to deliver broadband? Are there certain things which he has learned and in regard to which care should be taken?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: The person who will be appointed to broadband-----
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am worried. I have been on the committee for three years. I am again being told that the phase has moved on. The board has now moved to a new phase. A report costing €500,000 tells us the board simply did not do its work, if I might put it like that. I would not like to be in the role of any of the board members. I am simply looking at what is stated in the report. Mr. Quinn...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: To be fair, I have read the report and Mr. Quinn had an impossible task. He had to make many decisions on whether matters reached a standard such that he was obliged to report. That was very difficult and I feel for Mr. Quinn. However, there was something wrong with what the Government laid out as his duty or his ability to carry out that duty. We cannot go forward with broadband without...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed) (16 May 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Mr. Quinn was appointed because of his expertise, but his duty was to the board except in regard to very exceptional circumstances in which a level was reached. Mr. Quinn had to analyse matters and decide whether that level had been reached.