Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 May 2025

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. David Gunning:

I can comment on that from the development board’s point of view. As the Deputy can well imagine, we have ongoing relationships with the Department of Health and the HSE. I have been involved in many conversations on the takeaways from this and how they might be applied to the new maternity hospital, for example, and various other things. The Department of Health – the representatives here might want to comment on this – has co-ordinated a kind of arrangement whereby the learning could be transferred. However, independently, we have had discussions with the senior people in the HSE on capital projects.