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

Mr. David Gunning:

On that assessment of the contractors, I do not disagree with the Deputy's summary. We face enormous challenges. Our job is to use the contract. What levers do we have in the contract? We have used every lever we have under the contract, including the retention of moneys and the application of liquidated damages. There are a number of instances of that. That is the scope of the leverage and the capability that the development board has available to it under the contract. As hinted at earlier by Deputy Cullinane and others, should we then go outside and look at alternative types of dispute resolution mechanisms? As I have said, we have been in that territory as well but resolving these issues is not straightforward. We are still in the discussion, if I can put it that way.

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