Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
What is a ballpark figure for the completion. Mr. Devine referred to the compliance programme. The sense is there are not enough staff doing that type of work. We would like to think there has been a huge amount of work done since the time when we were walking around there, but when we talk to people who are on site, the story they give us, as Mr. Devine said himself this morning, is that there are elements of the hospital where there are still wires just hanging down in terms of the electrical work. There is a huge body of work to be done. I am trying to get a sense of how the work will be done within a specific timeframe. You would imagine that the more workers on site, the quicker the work will be done. Is that the worry Mr. Devine has in regard to the contractors, that if they do not have enough people on site carrying out the work, it is going to drag on even longer?
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