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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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Gunning does not recall what-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: Mr. Gunning has hit the nail on the head. The problem is we are asking what the levers are. Mr. Gunning is telling us he has all of these levers but clearly they are not sufficient. Clearly there were flaws in the contract whereby sufficient levers were not in it to allow the board, the Government and us to hold the contractor to account. What I am hearing is that we are powerless. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: We have had figures thrown about regarding tens of thousands of changes to the design. Mr. Devine said there were 449 change orders. What is the cost of these change orders?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: What are the estimated costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Is Mr. Devine saying that 469 change orders comprise the bulk of the claims?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Will Mr. Devine give me the figures again? He said that €31 million out of approximately €750 million had been agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Claims in respect of the changes that were made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Of the 469 change orders, how many have been determined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: What have the board’s legal costs for the project been to date?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Just give me the estimated total cost.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: To date.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Was the figure the board cited to the Committee of Public Accounts last year not approximately half of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: To date, it is €4 million. How long is the technical commissioning expected to take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Seven or eight months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: That is under way and the board does not expect it to delay the opening of the hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: How long is that likely to take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Listening to the witnesses, I get the sense that the board is helpless. There is a serious logjam in this major project and I am not hearing any pathway towards the resolution of these significant issues. There is an element of people throwing their hands up in the air and shrugging their shoulders. What is the pathway? In answering, will the witnesses confirm what powers the board has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: The ER has been working on this for three years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I know, but Mr. Gunning said that there had not been a compliant programme since 2021.