Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

It is there already but one of the bits which PwC mentions is commerciality. I read that to be about the contract management, managing this contract with the construction firms to a point where it is done really effectively. We have experience doing that on small projects but doing it on big projects is a much bigger task. That would be one element. I referred to another element in my opening statement. Because of what has happened, I think we are going to have a lot of concentration on construction. However, knowing what I know about projects, although this is a health project of a bigger scale, the biggest piece for the successful delivery of the benefits of the project is the handover and bringing the project into operation. This includes commissioning phase, which the development board will be doing, but also the staffing, the introduction of the technology, the organisational culture and how it is all put in place in the new hospital. We have had Tallaght and Beaumont. We have experience of where that works really well as well as where issues arise. A focus for me for this remaining piece will be the commissioning, as well as the integration of the building with the people who are going to work in it and who are going to really make it successful. I would want to bring in some extra advices around what we can do successfully in that space to deliver those benefits.

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