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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask Mr. Gunning to supply us with the dates. My point is that every day becomes a month and becomes a year. We have been here last year and the year before. We are being asked reasonable questions by the public and the media on what more can be done. Of course the contractor has to do more. I am not convinced this strategy of having endless rows with the contractor is working. It is clearly not because we have all of these delays. I am concerned whether this strategy is the right strategy. Only time will tell whether this is the case. There is political accountability also. Am I right in saying that, in 2018, the Minister for Health at the time was presented with three options, one of which was ending the contract with BAM? Am I also right in saying that, in 2019, BAM offered to withdraw?

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