Dáil debates

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

National Children's Hospital: Statements

 

6:35 pm

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I believe she did but if she did not, that is okay. The three options and the reference to the impact they would have on delaying the project and on additional costs to the project are outlined on page 2 of a memorandum dated 9 November, which I published last Thursday to provide Members with full transparency. The Deputy asked if I knew about Hamburg and I am not familiar with that specific project but I will make myself specifically aware of it. We did provide the AECOM cost benchmarking report to the Joint Committee on Health, however, and it is a publicly available document now. In that document we looked at international comparisons in terms of the cost of this hospital versus other comparable hospitals. If one looks at it, this hospital will come in at €6,500 per sq. m, according to AECOM ,compared to €9,000 per sq. m to build an equivalent children's hospital.

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