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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes, they are. Since the figure of €1.433 billion was given, have there been changes to the regulations or are there statutory issues that will increase the cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Since the figure of €1.433 billion was given, have there been any design changes that could increase the cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: What about delays?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that we do not know what the future will hold.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: At this point in the project there are not costs associated with delays.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I have questions on the design itself but they have nothing to do with the change of design. The Coombe maternity hospital was meant to be relocated. We were told in 2015 that it would be relocated in parallel with the children's hospital but, clearly, that has not happened. The design has not even begun of the new maternity hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I have spoken at some length with obstetricians and people working in the maternity services. What they have said is that the physical co-design matters greatly. For example, a corridor through which one can very quickly get mothers into the adult hospital and babies into the children's hospital is very important. Does Mr. Barry know whether the children's hospital has been designed with a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Putting the specialist robots aside for a second, will there be a corridor or physical link for mothers and babies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Does that include the adult hospital?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Great.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes. We are all aware of the cancellation of elective procedures in the three children's hospitals at the moment and I will outline one of my concerns. The new children's hospital is not providing many more beds. The figure given to the committee before was that there would be an extra ten beds or something but that is very few. I have a real concern that when this beautiful new facility...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It is welcome that there is protected operating theatre space. Are there also protected beds? In other hospitals, ward beds which are needed for post-op elective care are getting filled up due to an influx of patients into emergency departments and the increase in admissions. Many surgeries, including in children's hospitals, are being cancelled because there is no ward bed available for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: We will do our very best. This is the first time that I have spoken with Mr. Gunning and these are not the questions I would like to ask him at his first time before the committee, so I apologise. I do not mean to question his suitability or skills at all and I hope that he does a phenomenal job. I did not realise until today that he had never built a hospital or any other building which,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: To be nitpicky, I do not mean involved because one can be involved as an electrician working on a hospital. Has anyone actually led the build of a major hospital before on Mr. Gunning's team?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I do not mean to cast any aspersions. Mr. Gunning has not led such a project and that is fine. Has anyone on his team led the building of a hospital before?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Has anyone had Mr. Gunning's role on another major hospital project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I am not trying to be rude. Has anyone who reports directly to Mr. Gunning led the building of a hospital before?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Does Mr. Gunning know if any of them have ever led a hospital project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: They have led it, as in they have had Mr. Gunning's job or the equivalent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (27 Nov 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: A significant role in or led?