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:

I will give a little background. I will use a particular point which is the time that the site closed due to Covid in March of last year. The accumulated delay at that time was five months. In other words, the contractor at that stage was five months behind the committed programme timeline. As of today, the contractor is guiding us that they are ten months behind the committed programme timeline. That is the position in terms of the timeline. As Mr. Dempsey has pointed out, we have gone through a lot of detailed analysis of the programme. We have a recent submission from the contractor in relation to their assessment of the programme from now until the end. That is currently under review. All of these are set out in the analysis that has been submitted to the Department. So, I would expect out of this there will be a reset of the timelines, but I cannot particularly say until there are further discussions with the Department on that.

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