Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

9:30 am

Mr. David Gunning:

I wish to comment on that. There are engagements at multiple levels. There is the worker level engagement of people getting on with the job and building the hospital. Issues arise and decisions have to be made, for example, that a switch needs to be moved from there to there, and then it is agreed to move the switch. We are trying to make sure the building and getting it done proceeds and that the contractual processes and the row about the money does not get in the way of it. From my point of view, as well as that of Mr. Devine and other members of the senior team, we have good working relationships with our BAM equivalents. The past four weeks has probably been some of the most intensive engagement with them on all these topics. There is a working relationship. I want to make that point clear.