Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Okay, nine months. I want to get one question in before my time is up. As I just pointed out, healthcare systems require a large interaction with proprietary systems and commissioning, more so than most projects, both in building components and that evidence-based design piece where one needs medical professionals to come in and interact with things. Significant delays will be quite likely to have an impact because one is dealing with proprietary aspects of building components which must be stored. Are they being stored on site? Significant delays in the project system, and the fact the contractor is not giving the board a compliant work programme, will have huge impacts down the line in terms of dealing with building components on site or securing them. These are large building components that must be delivered at particular times. What kind of an impact is that having on the work programme? What is the contractor telling the witnesses in terms of those proprietary systems? Is there a financial impact to those delays as they knock on to the next contractor?