Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. David Gunning:

I am going to answer the Deputy's question about the care centre in Tallaght. I will ask Dr. Curtis to respond to the digital hospital elements. That issue relates to the operating model of CHI. Our job is to make sure that the network, plumbing, cables and radio network are installed, in place and fully operational to support that operating model.

The building of the care centre in Tallaght will be substantially completed by September this year, with an eight-week commissioning period. We are fully committed, as are all stakeholders, to getting Tallaght open by the end of November 2021. It is important to everybody for that to happen.