Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

Mr. David Gunning:

Mr. Devine deals with the work details. At board level, both our chair and I, as chief executive, interact with senior executives from BAM. It is more on my part, at a working level, with the BAM team on the ground here. We have regular interaction, with conversations at least weekly – maybe not meetings but at least phone calls. At project level, there is much more interaction. A range of meetings take place monthly, fortnightly and weekly and they involve a lot of interaction between the development board, our design team, which has produced the design and is tasked with supervising the works, and representatives of BAM.