Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018

9:00 am

Mr. Fred Barry:

Sure. What we are doing about that is we are working very closely with the contractor on the details of the programme. Just to step back a little bit, at the time of contract the contractor puts forward a programme scheduling the works as to how he is going to get from the start of the construction to the end within the timeline set out in the contract. As the work unfolds there are normally changes to that programme. Some things get ahead and some things get behind but in everything things are rarely done exactly in accordance with that programme. The contractor comes up with new programmes and rescheduling of the work. The contractor is developing new programmes at the moment and we are working very closely with him to ensure that those programmes are consistent with the contract.