Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion
Mr. Paul Reid:
I will come in first. I spent three and half hours yesterday on the site with Fred Barry and all the team. I would state the obvious. It is fantastic to see the project above ground and to see the scale of it. It is a massively complex site in the middle of a mostly residential but also industrial area. Inevitably it will be a difficult project but it is reassuring to see the progress that is being made.
On the issue of cost overruns or delays, I specifically had a conversation with the team on that yesterday and the feedback I got was exactly as the Minister relayed. They have had a number of submissions from the contractor through which they are working.