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:

It is important. Arup is our designer and we needed an external professional view and that was part of our due diligence. The board took its decision very seriously because we had the option not to proceed with the project. In a way that might have been an easy way out because we could have said that it was too expensive but we spent four or five months analysing this in every possible way so that when we came to our board meeting in November we could make this decision. It was an enormous decision but it was not made lightly. It was made on the basis that, despite the fact that the ultimate cost of the building was far higher than we expected it to be, we made a recommendation that we should proceed with it.

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