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:
The frustrating thing for us is that there has been a process of inspection all the way through as the project has been built out. In these final room offers where they offer rooms as complete for review by the design team, most of the issues were pre-known. There has been a huge representative sampling of inspection done on the project. They are not surprising issues. That is where we talked about the contractor following its QMP. There were known issues. There might be the odd new one. There is always a new issue that somebody might not have seen before but the majority were known issues. They should have been brought to the right standard before they were offered. That is the frustrating thing. That has not happened. It has been pointed out on numerous occasions to the contractor that things were not to the right standard. It needed to go back and make sure it was doing its QA and getting things up to the right standard before they were offered. However, it continues to keep on re-offering rooms at the wrong standard. As Mr. Gunning said, I am glad to say we got a re-offer of 72 rooms last week and it looks like we are now getting to the right starting point. It is now just a factory process of rolling it all out until we get to the end of the job.
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