Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. David Gunning:

There are two separate proceedings in the High Court. Briefly, we refer to the first one as the phase B claim. This where BAM made a claim on the phase B instruction, which the NPHDB issued instructing it to initiate and complete the phase B works. We are questioning the validity of that claim.

That claim was put during the moratorium, which we have discussed here previously. That was paused or put on hold in the High Court. As of earlier this year, before the summer, BAM reinitiated those proceedings and they have been admitted to the commercial list of the High Court. There will be a hearing today in relation to the discovery phase of that particular process. The second one is the frame claim, which is in the High Court, but nothing is happening in relation to it.

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