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:

There are another 4,000 rooms that are not close to the standard, but they are working on them. From the progress photographs issued ahead of this meeting, the Deputy will see the level of the standard that is already in the hospital. Those rooms are between approximately 80% and 90%, so it is now all about finalising the rooms, doing the final finishes and offering that to the design team. The design team will inspect them to ensure they are at the right standard and then there will be de-snagging or final remedial works required before they are saved, they are complete, and the door is locked. The idea then is that you reduce the hospital down.

You lock the door, you get that finished, and you move on to the next one. It is a process.