Minister for Health Simon Harris appearing at a Health Committee meeting this morning
This morning.
Simon Harris says an “early warning system” would have helped significantly with children’s hospital costs. He insists there was “intensive” work going on from Aug to Dec for Govt meeting about project in Dec-when it was approved #iestaff via @Junomaco
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) February 6, 2019
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More as we get it.
Pic via Rollingnews
Could a civil servant have alerted Simon Harris of cost overruns? (Irish Examiner)
Previously: Well Warned
Meanwhile…
Min @Paschald has acknowledged that it would have been helpful to have been made aware of #NCH overrun sooner but tells FF TD @mmcgrathtd that Health Minister @SimonHarrisTD had to quantify the problem @rtenews pic.twitter.com/u0Y5xd17CE
— Ailbhe Conneely (@AilbheConneely) February 5, 2019
Why would you trust a man who uses hysteria and lies to defend the idea of killing babies?
He cares nothing for your money.
Or your children.
Or Moonbats.
Does full term abortion float your boat Ms Murder for a lark?
It’s the latest thing in liberal-land.
Love ’em so I do. Them and avacados.
I wouldn’t eat a whole one … The avocado that is …
Get down with NPC, Ya you know me!
Moooooooonbat.
Moonbaaaaaaat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIahXVJrvT0
I don’t trust him. His record on moonbaticide tells its own tale.
Like a Pixar movie, but with more angry ranting.
Do moonbats live in Nancy Pelosi’s cave?
It would be moist enough, I’d say. Warm too, like a recently dead Christian.
His panic with the Cervical Cancer screening cock-up was palpable. And his scattergun reactions have caused chaos (repeat smears for the entire country for no reason with resulting huge backlogs, outrageously expensive drug with marginal benefit first for just the 220 patients affected and then, when it was pointed out how crazy this was, for all patients with cervical cancer).
He has been led by the nose by the media circus.
Early Warning System?
Such as……….a project director/competent board applying basic project management skills?
If only someone had invented sucha thing.
Just shows how stupid Harris actually is
Harris told RTE yesterday that he ordered “several expert reports” when concerns about costs arose last August. Six months later, where are those “expert reports”? Why do we need another €450,000 “expert report” from PwC?
He ordered then properly. Just have to be cooked and decorated to his liking.
Lets have EY look into this, half a mill should cover it.
An early warning system is called a spreadsheet a little formula with turns the over runs red in colour.
This, is waffle.
If a €900million project is being run on excel you have much bigger problems….
That is probably the answer…. they were using excel to manage the budget
Not at all. All PM, finance and BI solutions can export into Excel.
You don’t need a consultant to tell you what time it is.
The guy is clearly out of his depth.
The 80’s called they want their ‘spreadsheets’ back-they would be a small part of this project, if at all and certainly not color coded with ‘red’-duh.
Here’s an early warning system – Check quote from builder/supplier against invoice for goods/services supplied by same. If invoice amount is higher than quote raise this with the adult in charge!
Early warning system
Seriously?
There are Hundreds of them already there- sitting there for the last 10 years
Management Accountants
Cost Accountants
Financial Accountants
Internal Auditors
External Auditors
Project Managers, Development Managers, Facilties Managers, which include QS’s usually and also a team
Between the HSE & the Voluntary’s, the Comptroller General’s office, the OPW, the Dept of Health, the Dept of Finance slash Public Expenditure
the Effin Cabinet of two consecutive Governments
The Design Team
The NCH Development office
The Suppliers and Contractors
the Board
actually the boards of James’ the Maternities and the Childrens’ etc
Public Procurement / Tender set up
Seriously What the Effin’ Púc
They made a mickie out of this from Day one with O’Reilly
There were other sites sitting there in Dublin 8 and Dublin 12
just needing a bitta’ land swap agreements with DCC
Believe me lads
there is no effin way this Hospital will ever function to the benefit of the Irish citizen
Seriously
Make sure yere E1 elevens’ are all up to date and in order folks
and prepare to take yere children and grandchildren some where else
Did any of the above have sirens and a bat signal to be displayed on the clouds? Was there an advisory to tell you to duck and cover under a school desk?
If not, you can hardly blame Simon, can you?
Bloody reason, facts and logic! What about how it felt, eh?
I know
Especially when they have to smile for the cameras so much
You’re right
I was being unfair
Is it true that Richard Boyd-Barrett said in the Dail today that Dutch construction giant, BAM has paid PwC €34 million in the last decade in fees for audits and consultancy?
The government is now paying PwC €450,000 to investigate the huge over-run in costs at the National Childrens Hospital which is being constructed by ……. BAM.
Boom Bam ah’ Bam
Get used to seeing PWC appear everywhere in this shambles
Don’t be surprised if every non-profit employee stakeholder group involved in the payments register have a PWC connection
Picture the carnage of those fields and fields of abandoned tents and rubbish at the last EP …..
That’s the scale of this
Ooopp
Typo
Should read … Every a non-employee stakeholder …
Not non-profit …
Incompetence, ineptitude, it’s monopoly money to them. Having Harris in charge is akin to putting the student on TY Work Experience in charge of the 15billion euro Health Budget.
Choo Choo. The gravy train is leaving the station. All aboard and leave someone else to clean up the mess.