Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 31 January 2019
Public Accounts Committee
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017
9:00 am
Mr. Jim Breslin:
On our board, as I said, we have reached the stage where we have a guaranteed maximum price. We were given a brief almost six years ago and went through a very structured process for months. We procured a design team and analysed the best way to procure the contractors. We were mindful of the fact that, at the end of the day, before we committed to a major spend just one month ago, there should be cost and programme certainty. We have got to that stage. I appreciate that the current figure is much higher than we had expected it to be, but we have got to the stage we set out to reach, that there would be cost and programme certainty.
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