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 will be sitting down with BAM next week. We regularly do so and these issues come up. I will make a practical statement that the Deputy certainly will understand. We are at the point where we want the contractor to make more and more progress, yet the only sanction the contract allows us is to withhold money from the contractor at the time when it needs the money. We therefore have to be very measured and reasonable and fair in decisions that affect that cash flow. We need to think that that may have some further unfortunate consequences on actually achieving substantial completion. We have to take all that into account in making these decisions. I just make that general point.

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