Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 September 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

9:30 am

Mr. David Gunning:

Deputy Cullinane has reminded us of what the grounds are. It is all design change and we fundamentally disagree with that point. We do not agree that design change is the cause of delays on this project. We simply do not buy it. Even if it was in the past, and I acknowledge that, the design phase is over. We are 94% complete and we still cannot get these rooms.

Design is not holding up the project at the moment. These rooms are partially finished. This should be working like a factory, spitting out finished rooms that we can get our design team into and get them accepted. We need to get to the point where we can get CHI teams in there to start working and turning this building into a hospital. That is why we are all involved in this project.

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