Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018

9:00 am

Mr. David Gunning:

I will ask my colleague, Mr. Phelim Devine, to follow up in case I miss any particular points. The Chairman made an interesting point about the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board when he said, "They go way when the development is over." The organisation has been set up for a specific purpose and it is staffed by a wide range of contractors and consultants on a particular basis, including a design team of over 200 from whom we purchase services. We have people closer to the organisation who are part of the national paediatric hospital organisation. These are known as constructive management services and they provide an array of different services on site. We also buy in specialist services from others. Deputy Murphy is correct that there is a lengthy list of urban planners, healthcare planners, architects, building engineers, civil and structural engineers and so on.

In the design team we have, predominantly, a large number of architects. BDP is the lead architectural firm. It also provides what is know as the employers' representative function. We have quantity surveyors from Linesight, who measure costs and do various other activities. The ARUP company provides mechanical and electrical, primarily design verification, services and supervises implementation of that on site. We then have an organisation called OCSE Civil and Structural Work looking at all the structural design, the concrete, the steel and the pulling together of the whole thing. They are the range of services within the project.

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