Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 May 2025
Public Accounts Committee
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. John Fitzpatrick:
The €362 million comprises various workstreams. There are 14 workstreams covering integration, EHR and the ICT programme to deliver on a digital hospital. At the end of 2023, €208 million of that was unspent, against 2024, when €156 million of that was unspent. We continuously have to review those workstreams and the profile of them. If you asked me a week ago was there sufficient funding to see the project through to completion, I would have said "Yes." If there are new dates now, we have to review, revalidate and extend out the programmes again. We have curtailed some of those workstreams to pause them, as delays have arisen, to ensure then that the costs are incurred and can be deferred out further.
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