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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: 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.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I will not use all of my time, so the Senator need not worry. First of all, I am not entirely comfortable with describing this as a boilerplate public works contract because it was a two-stage situation that would not be found in every contract. That left us open to perhaps some of the difficulty we find ourselves in now. I want to go back to technical commissioning. Mr. Devine described...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, right up to substantial completion. Is there anything that is still out to tender?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Then all the subcontractors and all the specialist people have entirely been-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Have most of those tenders happened in the last six months? When did that tender process occur?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Let us take, for example, the change orders outlined by the board in the additional material. BAM is described as being in a joint venture with ClearSphere tendering for a specialist fit out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: When did that occur?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It was relatively recently, then, that we were still allowing BAM-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: BAM was still tendering for unique projects within this project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am just pointing out that slightly amazing fact. Going back to the lower-level claims, Mr. Gunning was saying quite a large proportion were below €10,000 and BAM has refused to come to the table. He described how the board has offered a sum or some kind of agreement on that and BAM has refused to come to the table. I assume that even without that offer there would be a bundling...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is Mr. Gunning describing it as the contractor choosing not to settle on those lower-level claims because it provides evidence for its-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: -----larger claim.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: All right. That certainly helps BAM in the media. On the liquidated damages mentioned in the opening statement, we do not have a huge amount of information about what that is. Is it a pre-agreed sum?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: And what is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Does Mr. Gunning mean €15 million by year, by month or what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: In the context of €2.2 billion that is not a huge amount.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: All right, but the pre-estimate is agreed at the time of signing the contract, which is before you understand the inflation implications and the implications of delay. I understand the concept-----