Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Jim Breslin:

The mechanical and electrical costs represents a huge part of what PwC must examine. There is the design team membership with expertise in mechanical and electrical engineering, the build board itself and, through that process, there is quantity surveying and trying to find the cost of something which is found to have been omitted or is additional. We were told that the costing of the mechanical and electrical work packages were the last thing to be resolved. That was what led to the very sudden increase towards the end of the process.