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:
No, it is not as big. You can drive by that now and see the steel structures going up. It is proceeding very well. It will comprise 52 family rooms. We turned the sod on that in March and it is progressing. The funding for that was provided jointly through the charity and the State. The charity has provided €10 million and €18 million or thereabouts has been provided by the State. The development board is assisting. Obviously, we are working on behalf of the Department of Health and the HSE but Ronald McDonald House Charities is also involved. It has appointed its own design team but we have appointed, contracted and tendered for the actual building and are project managing the build on behalf the stakeholders, namely, the Department, the HSE and Ronald McDonald House Charities.