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:
It has changed its team around. That is just one thing, but there has been no real dynamic change associated with that.
If you are well aware of change, you can programme the works. Yes, you might have to wait for the final drawing, but you know what will happen. It is important to say that when a change is issued by the employer, that means we are paying the contractor to bring in additional resources and additional supervision. It will be paid additional prelims in order to carry out the change. Therefore, most of the changes, including the recent change orders - and I have a list of change orders here – are all small. This is apart from the RCPs, which we talked about, and the smoke detectors in ceilings. Even with that change, we sat with the contractor. We said that we could argue over who is responsible for the change, but we said we would pay it a premium rate-----