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:
Mr. Gunning's answer is the core issue. We have a team of 25 people from our design team checking quality on a daily basis. It goes back to the implementation of a quality management plan. You learn lessons as you go on. You know what to look for. As you go through any process of completing areas of the hospital, they should get better and better. Mr. Gunning mentioned confidence - confidence should then build up. We just have not seen that. To make absolutely sure that we get a world-class hospital that we designed and specified, we have had to increase our team to make sure that BAM delivers it. That is why we have had to increase the team. We have gone from about 15 people to about 25 people. There are an extra ten people on site. On top of that, even to assure us internally within our organisation, I have a number of people on my team who have built, commissioned, designed and equipped hospitals of this scale previously. They are a second layer of assurance that we have internally, which looks at what the design team are doing to make sure all the technical issues are picked up and the quality is right.
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