Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I just noted in my inbox, and I am sure all members probably got one, an invitation to visit the national children's hospital. I want to visit when it is finished. I do not need to see a construction site. I want to see children in beds in the hospital. This letter is dated 18 July. I do not understand why the sanction was not used earlier, to be perfectly honest. There has been a series of delays and they are costing money. Obviously, people have to be paid, they are finishing out the hospital and there are not enough resources on the site to do that. Has the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board actually put those sanctions in place? This is July. It put them on immediately. Has it had any kind of impact in terms of giving the up-to-date substantial completion date? If the company does not have sufficient resources on site, there is no point in saying the substantial completion date is going to be met. Is there a new substantial completion date? Is the board satisfied those resources will deliver it by February 2025? Its representatives could not give us guarantees the last time they were before the committee. If the board is not satisfied, what is it doing about it? What date is it working to?

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