A confidentially agreement was proposed by the former head of the national children’s hospital board in relation to aspects of the financing and building of the hospital, new documents have revealed. The documents, seen by The Irish Times, reveal how key decision-makers in the hospital’s board discussed signing the confidentiality agreement in August of last year in relation to what was happening with Bam, the main contractor, and the hospital’s budget. A specialist group of the children’s hospital board met on August 30th, three days after Minister for Health Simon Harris was told of potentially serious overruns in the project. At the meeting Mr Quinn said “we need to be able to stand over the project from a public procurement perspective”. Separately, an invitation has been issued to Bam to come before the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to discuss its side of the children’s hospital saga.

Source: The Irish Times February 19, 2019 00:45 UTC