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
11:50 am
Mr. John Pollock:
The design brief was done in 2011. Clinical activity and practice change as does the way in which a hospital is run, then versus now, and there are improvements, for example, in imaging scanners. One must update to accommodate current clinical practice and the clinical practice that will operate in the three children's hospitals. Our clients in this are the children's group board. Will they operate the hospital on the St. James's Hospital site in the same way as they would have operated on the Mater Hospital site? Obviously, we cannot transcribe a building directly from the Mater Hospital site to the St. James's Hospital site.