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:

We got a review because the biggest cost increase related to the mechanical and electrical services. Our sense at the time was that it might have been overdesigned so we commissioned one of the leading companies in the UK, DSSR, to do a full review of the mechanical and electrical services in order that we could confirm that they were fit for purpose. DSSR has carried out many similar projects in the UK and it confirmed that, based on what we were setting out to achieve, namely, a fully digital modern hospital that was-----

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