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. Phelim Devine:

There is an agreed room completions process. It can be between our design team and BAM. It is not that the design team is signing off on the rooms because those rooms do not actually get to the point of being fully signed off or handed over until substantial completion. What the design team does is, to assist BAM, go in and inspect them and say, "Yes, this is what we expect in terms of compliance with the works requirements and the elements of those rooms that are being offered within the inspection." In the inspection there might be one or two exclusions from that, which they will come back and do at a later date. Basically, they do not get handed over until substantial completion. There are a number of issues, but we are working with the contractor. We in the development board, with our design team, are the guardians of quality on this project to ensure that the State gets a hospital that is fully compliant and of the highest quality. That is what we are striving for. We work with BAM then in terms of achieving-----

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