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. Phelim Devine:
There are 6,000 drawings on the project and they have been revised up to three times. There are 23,300 drawings in total. BAM and their subcontractors have issued us 25,500 drawings. To try to simplify, as that is complex, to date, the employer's representative has determined there has been €35 million worth of employer change on the project. That is about 4% of the contract sum. Conversely, BAM has pushed out the end date by 66%. BAM will say design change is causing the delay. The employer has changed a maximum of 4% and the end date has been pushed out by 66%. Those figures do not align.
In terms of the programme and the resources we talked about, the contractor has been on site for just over 68 months since January 2019. I could probably count on two hands how many times they have actually met their monthly progress for any month during those 68 months. If you are not even-----
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