Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 February 2021

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement

1:00 pm

Mr. David Gunning:

Let me put it in terms of a cash flow summary. By the end of November 2020, we should have spent almost €600 million on this project. We actually spent €338 million. The delta that was unspent was €258 million. That delta has been increasing. When I say that of late things have improved in the resourcing of the site by the contractor, the numbers on-site have been increasing but they are still not at the level the contractor had set out in the contractor's own resource programme and resource plan for the project. I do not think it is possible for me to say that it is a week a month because it has varied. At present, it is improving somewhat.

At the moment the contractor has had more than 1,000 people on-site, which is the highest level of resources it has had on the site since the project began. That is encouraging, but it will not be enough to recover the delay that has accumulated to date.

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