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. Paul Quinn:
There is some good news here. Many of the issues that normally arise during the construction phase have been addressed now. All those battles and fights have been had with the contractors involved to get to a pricing point that is now locked down. There are still risks. It is well set out in the PwC report and elsewhere that the project still carries other risks like inflation. However, many of the issues associated with how many widgets, what type of widgets and at what costs those widgets will be provided have already been knocked down. Let us not forget that this project is now two years ahead of where it would otherwise be if we had followed the standard project. I know there are many challenges.
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