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:
Correct. It is less than 4% of the total. That is what her assessment is, but BAM does not have to accept that assessment under the contract and can go to the next forum, which is the project board and then on to conciliation, where they have got, you know, more sympathetic and then ultimately if we do not agree with that we will move onto the court. The court is different to conciliation. We have talked about conciliation and there were comments about conciliation. In the court, you have to produce actual detail of your real costs. The contractor will have to say "I was delayed by this and it cost me that" and not inflated claims that will be adjudicated in the High Court.
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