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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Kate O'Connell: No one is suggesting they are not. Of course they are.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Kate O'Connell: In Ms O'Friel's opinion, as a witness to the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Kate O'Connell: As am I.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Dec 2018)
Kate O'Connell: And every other boreen too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am just getting my bearings. Deputy Kelly can go first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: To some extent I have to congratulate the witnesses on getting to this phase with the hospital. Like many members of the committee I feel that Irish children have been neglected for a long time at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin. I have reason to be there a bit myself, and I often send the Minister for Health photographs of the walls to remind him what it is like. I look forward to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Absolutely. That is what Mr. Pollock was referring to there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Perhaps Mr. Costello could answer the first few questions while I get the next bit ready.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: As such essentially the hospital can evolve as medicine evolves.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: To do what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: By whom is it accepted? Is it accepted by the building sector?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Did costs run over by 100% there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: In the United Kingdom or the other examples that include a two-stage process did costs run over by this percentage? I would like a simple answer to that question as I am under pressure of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand but the day has ended in Ulster Hospital and those hospitals so did they go over by twice the amount? I understand that we are only partially through the process. In respect of Ulster Hospital and the NHS hospitals that are completed, did the two-stage process result in such an overrun - yes or no?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am a lay person. The witnesses are sitting here as the people who were appointed to the board for their skills and competency - their words - and they are telling me that a two-stage process is the way forward because it is acknowledged and accepted internationally as the best way. Mr. Costello then references Ulster Hospital and the NHS as organisations that have used this model but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I do not want Mr. Costello to read it out. We are under time pressure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I know it is important but I am here as a questioner and Mr. Costello is here as a witness. I have asked him a very simple question to which I would like an answer as soon as possible because the witnesses or somebody else must have it. If the witnesses do not have it, we have a serious problem in that the witnesses have not looked at the outcomes in terms of cost overruns in other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I have no problem understanding what Mr. Costello is saying. He is saying that the traditional model of tendering was not suitable in this case. I understand completely. If there is a theatre, we do not want to say that it will cost €1 million, only for the builder to build it for €1 million and then shave off €200,000 by putting in a cheaper tile, wall or ceiling. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Can Mr. Costello say for the record that he will get me the information about the overruns relating to the examples he cited today of how this is the best way to go about it?