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- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Is it possible that we would get information on the projects they looked at?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: This is so we can also see where mistakes were made in other projects outside of Ireland, that we do not make the same mistakes and that we, as a committee, are aware of what occurred. I ask that we would be given that information. On the Ontario project, I consulted with the developers there for an hour, and they gave me as much information as I needed. Likewise, we should be made aware...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: I will move on to the issue of equipping out and the work now being done. Obviously, subcontractors have been brought in to do much of this work. What is the inflation rate with regard to equipping out and the work that must now be done, for instance, putting in theatres? Is there now an increase in cost on that because of the delay that has occurred or because of the delays that will...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Have we contracts in place for the purchase of that equipment at this stage?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Is there a likelihood that some of that equipment will not now be required until 2023 or 2024 and we will have an increased cost there as well?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: 2019 Financial Statement (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Has there been any effort to tie down contracts at this stage in order that we can avoid that escalation in cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: I thank the guests for the information they have given to us. The committee should get a full and detailed breakdown of the number of additional claims pending and the cost of those claims. There are a lot of fuzzy areas at the moment around what is pending and what is not. It would be helpful to know the full extent of the total value and number of those claims and their status. Could...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Are there additional claims relating to those two projects that must still be resolved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: What is the value of those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Perhaps the committee may have details in writing on those two projects. It would be helpful for the committee if we had written details on those two projects, including the costs, the overrun and the additional work that had to be done that was not included in the plan. Can we also get that information?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: I will move on to the implementation of the electronic records. I understand that electronic records have been introduced for maternity care. If electronic records are to be introduced for paediatric care we need to be careful to ensure that we do not end up with a system where one is not able to connect with the other. Is there co-ordination on that issue? With regard to the other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: What will be the case if a child is receiving care in Cork, for example, and who then must suddenly be transferred to more specialised care in Dublin?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Is this the case if they are in the paediatric system in Cork? What is the set-up for three-year-old being admitted to that system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: We are talking about Dublin, and it is very much focused on Dublin, but can Galway, Limerick and Cork be included the same process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Is Ms Hardiman saying that there is no plan long term for converting the current systems in all the other units outside Dublin into electronic records?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: We need to do a long-term plan for the whole area.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Why not do it on the basis of it being extended out? Why not plan for a target of extending it out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Cork, Limerick and Galway paediatric care would not be in small wards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: Could CHI not target a number of units that have in excess of a certain number of patients per annum? I am concerned that more than €2 billion is being spent on a paediatric hospital and €800 million on a maternity unit in Dublin. We are saying to the rest of the country that they can sit and wait until we get around them in 20 or 30 years. That is not the correct approach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)
Colm Burke: I thank the Chairman.