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:

When the grill issue was originally spotted, it was because we and CHI brought in a couple of experts as part of our own assurance process. Internationally, many large hospitals fail from a technical commissioning perspective and we did a lot of work early on to try to avoid or mitigate any such thing happening with the children's hospital. That is how that issue got spotted. We originally thought we might have to move the grills slightly. BAM's original estimate was that it would cost €50 million and add a year's delay to the job. I believe that was even said in the Dáil at one stage. We then did some work and it got reduced to €25 million and a lesser extension of time on the contract.

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