Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 May 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
9:30 am
Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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Which will cost time and money, as all of these things do. The last time Mr. Gunning was with us, he was quite sanguine about the number of contractors on site and the substantial completion date we had been given at that time, which has slipped as of this morning. He felt that, through robust engagement with the contractors, he was seeing enough boots on the ground to make that timeline credible. At the moment, we have a shifting date, back to February 2025. We have no updated programme. From Mr. Gunning’s view of the activity on site, are the contractors serious about getting this work completed in the anticipated timeline?