Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----from the delivery of the children's hospital.

Deputy Bacik asks what steps the Government is taking to ensure this hospital is delivered. As she rightly says, the most important thing now is how we learn from what has happened, how we get the hospital open and how we get it providing care to sick young children. What steps are we taking in this regard? Two main steps are being taken. First, as regards the cost of the hospital, the board of the national children's hospital, acting on behalf of the Government, continues to challenge claims that are put in as regards costs being accrued in the delivery of the hospital and is successful in getting better value and better outcomes for the taxpayer in challenging many of those costs. As to what we are doing for the timeliness of the hospital's delivery, the board has the ability to withhold certain payments to the contractor in order to ensure that timelines are delivered even at this point. This is something the board does and continues to consider doing in the future to ensure we get closer to the point of the hospital being open and children receiving the healthcare they need and deserve.

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