Mr. Phelim Devine:

As Mr. Gunning has outlined, the project can be completed in 2023. All the stakeholders, including ourselves and BAM, are working very closely to bring about that date. A certain level of resource and project execution is required to deliver that outcome. We are hoping that BAM will be able to achieve it. Some 1,350 workers are now involved in the project, and BAM is hoping to increase that number above 1,600 in the next two months. It is that kind of resource level, or above, which is required to deliver completion of the hospital in December 2023. We are hoping and becoming more confident that the resources are increasing and going in the right direction.

As Mr. Gunning outlined regarding completion in 2023, when we hand over the hospital to Children's Health Ireland, the technical commissioning of all the mechanical and electrical, M&E, systems will be completed in the hospital. An operational phase then follows, which will be undertaken by Children's Health Ireland. It includes putting in the equipment - which we will assist them with - cleaning the hospital and familiarisation. Some 2,500 to 3,000 staff must become familiar with the hospital before it can go live. Therefore, a serious amount of detailed planning is going on now regarding that exercise. The overall time for completion, then, as Mr. Gunning mentioned, will most likely take until the second half of 2024. Children's Health Ireland is, however, undertaking that detailed plan of work.