Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 May 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

9:30 am

Mr. Eamonn Quinn:

It is important to focus on the fact that the contractor said it would be finished in October 2024. The contractor then sought to resile itself from that position. I do not want to focus on the contractor, but it is not standing up to its previous commitments. While it is important that we debate these matters in the public realm, the contractor is the one that keeps moving away from its commitments and is attempting – I am speculating, but it is probably for commercial reasons – to move those dates out so that there is further pressure on us.