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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: So, was it provided for in the contract or not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I am asking if it was extra to the contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: At the time of the announcement that the grills were not the appropriate grills, I presume the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board blamed the contractor and the contractor blamed the board. Would that be right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I say that because it was stated publicly in the media that this would set back the opening date of the hospital by a considerable time. Is that not correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Following on from the previous question by Deputy Lahart, it only took a very short time for the two sides to get together and work out what was required to resolve the problem in accordance with requirements set down by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and the contractor. Is that true?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Before any alarm was set off, for want of a better term, about the suitability of the grills, would it not have been better to sit down quietly with each other and work out a solution rather than trying to exaggerate the difficulty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That is right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Whose fault was that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That was a tremendous achievement-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: -----without any of the hoo-ha about its setting the development back by a year and all that kind of thing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I want to concentrate on one other question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: It was resolved at the time and given the degree to which the contractor will continue to allege it costs €25 million, what was the actual cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That is noted and I am sure it will be used as appropriate. Is it true that the contractor essentially went off-site during the Covid pandemic?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: In the period before and after the Covid pandemic, by how much did construction costs in the country increase generally?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I want to hold Mr. Gunning to that question first. Construction costs did increase, I presume that is agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: From the time of the contract until now, by how much have construction costs increased generally?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Some in the construction industry will say that construction costs and building costs generally have increased by considerably more than has been suggested by Mr. Gunning. In fairness to the contractors, they are not present. I think they should be present. We accept Mr. Gunning's bona fides in his replies to questions. However, there is another side and the contractors have a different...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Mr. Gunning has already indicated that the completion of the number of rooms still to be completed could be done in a very short time if there is agreement on the modus operandi. Is that true?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Confidence building is really a matter for speculation at this stage. The time for confidence building was some time before now to ensure that the contract moved smoothly to its natural conclusion. We have come to and gone past that by virtue of reference to the works that are still outstanding, Covid, which was an interruption, and so on. I am concerned about references being made to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: I must go now but I have been in and out of that hospital on numerous occasions in the past 12 months and it is massive. We are underestimating the progress made.