Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Tracey Conroy:

No. The role of the build board has not changed at any stage in this process. Its overarching role set out in statutory instrument under legislation to design, build and equip the hospital has remained the same. The revised governance and management arrangements that were put in place post-April 2017 reflected the stage of the project we were moving into. Up to then it had been about designing, getting planning permission, agreeing scope and so on, to a position where Government had approved the award of moneys and those moneys were now going to be spent on construction and phase-----