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:
We are going through a process. We have put the contractor on notice of our intention to apply liquidated damages. There are three sets of liquidated damages under the contract. There are the works of the NCH and there are the family accommodation unit works, which are the preparatory works on which another contractor builds the buildings from the foundations. The third set is to do with the hub rooms to which Mr. Devine referred earlier. The ICT hub rooms are a separate sectional completion. We have indicated our intention to enforce the contract and the LADs on those three areas. The contractor has now already referred to conciliation two of those, so we are already in dispute on the contractor effectively questioning or refuting the development board's right to assert its rights under the contract on that topic.
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