Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 May 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
9:30 am
Mr. Phelim Devine:
The last time we were here, we talked about doing interim room inspections. The rooms were not fully complete. We are now talking about final room completions. There are 5,560 rooms and spaces within the hospital, if you ignore the basement and so on. The contractor has brought about 1,600 of those close to completion standard. They are not at completion standard; they are close to completion standard. There is a process between the contractor and the site inspector team we talked about earlier and the employer's representative to sign off benchmark rooms within the hospital. That states what standards are set out in the contract and that must at least be reached.