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:

On the additional resources, when we dimensioned the design team and the inspectorate within the design team, who are the people on site, including the resident architects and resident engineers who are on site every day looking at the progress, observing the works that are going on, engaging with our area managers, BAM's area managers, the Mercury and Jones people, and working with all those, we thought it would take a certain number of people to complete that task. Due to the challenges on quality, and this is the issue, BAM offers something and we say, "It is not ready. There are defects in it. Go and fix it." BAM comes back and offers it again but it is still not ready. It then offers it a third time. We have to add additional resources in order to do that. I do not think it is right that the State should pick up the cost of these additional resources to police the work of the main contractor, which is regarded as a tier 1 contractor. I do not think that is correct. That is what we mean. Mr. Devine has the details of who we have working on that.

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