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. Phelim Devine:
To get to the completion of the project, there are a number of KPIs we look at, but there are two main KPIs, one of which is bringing the hospital up to the completion standard. We talked about 5,740 room spaces in the hospital. They have to be brought up. The opening statement talked about the four-stage process. We are now going into stage 3, which is when, after they have been offered to the design team, the design team inspects them. There are approximately ten snags per room and the contractor has to de-snag those and offer them as snag free. That process is about to complete. We have 5,740 rooms to be offered back to us officially from the contractor for sign-off. The second KPI is the technical commissioning of the hospital. That includes all of the mechanical, electrical and building systems like lifts, opening vents, fire alarm systems and all that. That system commissioning is approximately 70% through, as we talked about earlier. Following that, those systems have to be integrated together and then the functionality of the hospital has to be demonstrated in a fire alarm situation. Things have to turn off and turn on. They are the two main drivers of getting to the end date. They are the ones, in terms of KPIs, that are tracking behind the programme.
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