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- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: The question is clear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: The development board has considered being involved in that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I thank Mr. Gunning for the clarification. Deputy Ó Cathasaigh is next but Deputy Devlin is trying to attend to parliamentary duties. Perhaps Deputy Ó Cathasaigh will give way to Deputy Devlin, the deputy Chief Whip, to allow him to fulfil his duties. Is he okay with that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I thank the Deputy for being agreeable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Tierney wants to comment briefly on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I propose we suspend the meeting for ten minutes for a short break and resume at 11.15 a.m. sharp.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Colm Burke is caught. Would the witnesses mind if we proceeded for ten minutes to facilitate the Deputy? The Deputy wants to speak now because he will be caught in the Dáil.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I will lift that proposal to suspend and we will continue. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: We will take a short break.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: The next speaker is Deputy Ó Cathasaigh.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: To clarify for the meeting, Mr. Gunning said some claims are so big they are in excess of €100 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Okay, that is all right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: And Mr. Gunning added that as a percentage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I thank Deputy Ó Cathasaigh. I have some questions regarding the timeline. The new date, released this week, is October 2024 for substantial completion. That is what we are being told. I would take substantial completion to mean completion of the building and substantial fit-out. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: You said in answer to questions earlier that if you have 100% performance, it is doable to comply with that-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Achieving it is doable but it would require 100%. Has there ever been 100% performance in terms of progress on the development of the hospital in the past six years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Would I be correct in saying there were months when the performance was in the mid-30s, at 33% or 34%? Would that be correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Over the next 13 or 14 months, it would need to be 100% every month to get to the target.
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Yes. Hallowe'en next year, and then we are looking at the commissioning. Ms Hardiman has outlined a lot of that and she referred to nine months as the expected timeframe for that. Six months would be a high bar to set. Would that be correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Therefore, we are looking at a scenario where it will be August 2025 at the earliest before the doors would be open to accept patients.