Kieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The press statement put out on the date the Government signed off on the children's hospital at Cabinet in December - I think it is 15 December - went through why there were delays and spoke about phase A and phase B. Phase A was underground and there was detailed design, whereas phase B was preliminary in nature. If one reads further correspondence, it would appear that, in the contract that was signed with BAM, it had put a date of June 2018 to come up with the final guaranteed price.