Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Children's Hospital
Mr. David Gunning:
I understand the simplicity of the Deputy's question. However, as I have explained earlier, we have absolute clarity on a number of the work streams. What we do not have clarity on is the build programme, which is the responsibility of the contractor. The reason we do not have clarity on that is because the contractor has failed to provide us with a compliant programme that sets out its responsibilities, activities, works and its substantial completion date. That piece of information is absent. I really do not want to put further dates into the public domain based on guesswork and speculation without having that information. There is too much at stake in terms of this project for me to add to that and I certainly have no plans to do so. Our intention is to be able to address that question early in 2021.
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