Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

Mr. Tom Costello:

There is a very clear reporting structure. The board reports in to the children's hospital project and programme, CHP&P, steering group which meets monthly. That in turn reports into the children's hospital project and programme board which meets bimonthly. Our reporting on a monthly basis is through what is known as the CHP&P. Feedback is all done in respect of the board. We meet every month. For the period from the middle of last year up to the end of the year we probably met every week. We did that because for months it had become clear that there was a challenge with the costs.

We first had to try to understand the basis of it and then work with our professional teams, our executive team and with the professionals we got externally to review it to ensure, as I mentioned, that we were not overdesigning the building and that the stage two criteria were being applied properly. I might ask Mr. Pollock-----

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