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 can. It is documentation that was submitted to the Department. Our board was appointed in August 2013. In late 2013 and into 2014 we were asked to prepare a preliminary budget. That was the first one to which we referred in which the rate of €2,500 per square metre was used. The total project cost came in at €800 million. For clarity, with regard to like-for-like comparisons, when one starts to apply rates in areas, one must bear in mind that we are also talking about VAT on top, the additional costs Mr. Pollack outlined for the satellite centres and all additional costs in design fees and so on. The Deputy stated a figure of €460 million of the sum of €800 million, but it is important to note that €800 million was the starting point.

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