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:

The contract is set up in such a way that the contractor is responsible for commissioning the hospital. That is normal in the context of every hospital. We have brought in our own internal expertise, however, with the design team, who also have commissioned designed large hospitals. They will sign it off. That is the way the contract mechanism is.

We have our own external eyes that serve to prod, review and check to ensure it is successful.