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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I know what the position is in Dublin and all of that. When we add that figure to the figure for communications, what figure do we get?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: We have, therefore, figures of €353,000 and €232,000. How much is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That figure presumably arises every year. Did the cost of communications increase in 2018?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I will first ask some practical questions on the accounts. I wish to pick up on something Deputy Cullinane said about conflicts of interest. Is it correct that the HSE explored with PwC whether there was a conflict of interest, and it satisfied itself that there was no conflict?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Has PwC never acted for BAM?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Has PwC acted for BAM in the past?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: It may be relevant.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am particularly asking whether its paths crossed with BAM.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Is it not relevant information when tendering a consultancy contract?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I did not table that parliamentary question. It must have been tabled by another Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I am interested in what measures are in place to ensure there is no conflict of interest. I do not want to discuss PwC at all and I do not care whether a conflict of interest is in its interest. I want to know what the HSE has in place to ensure there is no conflict of interest.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: PwC has not acted for BAM or done work for it at any stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: On the site, I began by listing the reports and I will not return to to the subject . Is it correct that the independent report of 2011 recommended a greenfield site if money was not the issue. Would the greenfield site have been preferable?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I do not know about that because this has become a €2 billion project. Let us be reasonable for a moment. Money was the issue at that point but the experts were recommending a greenfield site with a trilocation.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: For the St. James's site, was it going to be a trilocation or a bilocation? I cannot remember.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: What happened to that?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: At what stage is that plan?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: Will BAM do that also?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)
Catherine Connolly: I return to the accounts and I will focus on the nitty-gritty of one or two matters. I asked about the rent and I quoted the wrong figure, about which the Comptroller and Auditor General rightly corrected me. The report makes reference to an office fit-out. The prices are colossal. In 2016, the office fit-out was estimated at approximately €594,000. Is that correct?