Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Fred Barry:

It is the same companies, although not necessarily the same individuals. The prime activities that the design team are carrying out at the moment have regard to construction details. As the contractor finalises its plans for construction it comes up with a lot of detailed queries and submissions which the design team has to review, approve, and work out best solutions for with the contractor. A lot of that goes on. The design team has provided the employer's representative, which is an individual who is supported by a team which is on site doing quality assurance, tracking for progress payments, certifying applications, and so on. The design team still has a very heavy involvement, not in original design work but in follow-up work.