Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Phelim Devine:

Some of the medical equipment has been fitted out. Anything that is in any way connected to the building is being fitted out as part of the BAM contract. We have just procured all our automated guided vehicles. That fit-out will start soon. I refer to the clinical decontamination unit. We have just finished procuring the MRIs. That will not go in until next year because they go in as late as possible for safety reasons. We will have all the main medical equipment such as X-ray and fluoroscopy equipment procured by next month. We will have finished all the procurements and they will probably mostly be fitted out in 2023. All the loose equipment, which we refer to it as groups 3 and 4, such as furniture, physical monitors and so on will be fitted out after substantial completion, within the operation commissioning phase that is the responsibility of CHI.