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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: We know that all of those have been missed. Mr. Quinn, who is from the Department, is obviously keeping a close eye on this. I ask for his point of view and for those of the Secretary General and the assistant secretary. Is it his assessment and that of the Department that there has been too much risk and that all the risk in terms of timelines and costs has been loaded onto the board,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Is Mr. Quinn identifying flaws in this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Careful notes are therefore being taken of this so that lessons can be learned for future contracts.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is safe to say that lessons have been learned and flaws have been identified. Substantial flaws have been identified in this contract.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is fine. Mr. Quinn might use different language than I do. In terms of the substantial change to the completion date, what does he think the cost implications will be?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I will call on Mr. Gunning in a moment, but Mr. Quinn and the departmental officials are monitoring this. That his job, as CEO. What extra costs are we talking about in respect of the substantial completion date?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: I wish to ask Mr. Gunning about the figure of €2.24 billion. He stated that the board is using all levers but, to date, it has not been able to use those levers stop the runaway train. Is he in a position to say that this may run beyond the figure of €2.24 for construction, commissioning and having patients and doctors in situ?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: That includes the substantial build. What are the outstanding risks? What are the big retrieving risks Mr. Gunning sees at this point?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: What are numbers two and three?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Are there other factors?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Does Mr. Gunning foresee technical problems?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: There might be a few of a different nature, but I will come back to them later. I call Deputy Ó Cathasaigh.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Given the number of moving parts in this project, I do not think anybody - the Minister or God almighty - is in a position to state that, so we will come back to it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: At the present rate of progress, and I am thinking of the capacity, the number of people on site and progress as it is now and has been throughout this year so far, can Mr. Gunning say that it is possible, according to the current level of progress?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It slipped by 40%.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: It slipped by 40%, approximately.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: If you are driving a car at 100 km/h and you are going to Cork, you will get there at the set time of what it takes, but if you drive at 60 km/h, it will take longer. Yes? Okay. We will suspend the meeting for ten minutes-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: Deputy Munster has told me she has a Dáil engagement later on, so to facilitate her, I am going to allow the meeting to run for ten minutes more before we break. Deputy Munster can go ahead.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: The meeting is suspended for ten minutes. We will come back to this after the break.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Brian Stanley: We will continue with some of the issues that we were discussing earlier. I have a question for Mr. Devine on the issue with the windows. We have established there is a centralised system and if there is a fire, the windows would have to close automatically. We have established that, in some places, scaffolding might have to be put up to go the whole way up the six storeys. Mr. Devine...