Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 October 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
1:10 pm
Mr. John Pollock:
The €650 million which has been allocated covers the cost of the core children's hospital and the two satellite centres. It does not include the cost of research and education work which, it was always envisaged, would be funded through philanthropic funding. We will apply for planning both for the children's hospital and the research and education facility. Until the research and education funding comes on board philanthropically, we will not proceed with the construction of that. However, one still needs an element of research and education within the main children's hospital which will be built with a separate stand-alone block. It is dependent on the philanthropic funding to come through. That would have a much shorter period for construction so it could lag the children's hospital by two years and still be there at the same time. It is the remit of the group board to start the philanthropic process.
That means one starts to assemble a philanthropic committee and then commences to fundraise.
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