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. Phelim Devine:
There has to be context to that. It is important that the Deputy hears the context around bringing those experts in. We set out very early in the project back in 2017 with CHI to bring in five experts across five key areas to the hospital, such as ventilation, water, electrical and medical gases, and there are four specialist fit-outs in the hospital and four laboratories who brought in five experts. Those experts reviewed the design back in 2017 and 2018 and that went through with flying colours. Now, they are looking at the construction. The reason we did that was through international lessons learned on large healthcare projects, we identified that there have been problems internationally with large hospitals. To try to avoid that, we brought in these experts.