Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2012 Accounts of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

11:30 am

Ms Tracey Conroy:

On that point we have a new billboard in place which the Minister appointed in August 2013 and which is a competency based board with all of the competencies required to deliver a project of this kind.

It is important to emphasise that the Government had taken a decision after the refusal of the planning permission to look at the governance of the project.

We now have the national paediatric hospital development board with a focus on the build and construction to deliver the capital project. A children's hospital group board has been established on an administrative basis to look after the integration. That separation is important. It is one of the lessons we have from the past, to have clearer governance on the project. There is a very competency based board in this build board, with everything from planning to architecture-----