Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 January 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Dr. Emma Curtis:

No, first of all, everyone has been consulted. There have been groups and committees. We have worked with every specialty area. They have received drawings and plans. We have been back to talk to people. They have been into meetings. Clinicians were involved in terms of the detailed design. There has not always been agreement. Not everything that people asked for was granted. For example, a certain service may have wanted something in particular, but to have provided that would have compromised another service. The planning design of the hospital has to take into account how the whole hospital works. Something that might work for a particular service might in fact compromise future flexibility or adaptability. We have consulted closely with people. We have listened to people and met people, but there will be people who will be disappointed that things they wanted and asked for are not in the final design. That is all I can say about that, but there has been really extensive engagement.

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