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:

Maybe. I wish to offer an observation on the claims. I feel I should make this comment. The total number of days between the contract date, which is November 2022 and June 2025, is 720 days, or something to that effect. If the contractor is entitled to anything and it got every day paid for, it would get paid for 720 days. Its claims currently are for three times that many days. It wants to get paid three times for every day in delay. This €748 million is a gross exaggeration, even if we-----

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