Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Construction of the National Children’s Hospital: Discussion
Mr. David Gunning:
We mentioned, for example, the inflation cost. There are costs to do with claims. For example, there are a number of Covid claims the contractor has put in that will have to be resolved. There is the resolution of the sums that were provisional at the time the contract was signed that will have to be finalised. There is the additional cost for the running of the development board and the design teams. As we are now going beyond August 2022, there will be additional costs and we need to cover all of those. Those are a number of the cost items.
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