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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: I look forward to discussing something like that again with Mr. Quinn. My colleague has very eloquently stated that the relationship between the contractor and the board is not - and I know it needs to be formal - on the friendliest of terms, for want of a better phrase. Has the Department, which is nearly like a referee itself, engaged any other formats, methodologies or people to try to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: I know that. I used it as-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Okay. I apologise. I should not have used the word "referee". Has the Department used any other mechanisms outside of what we know about? Are there any other mechanisms, people or strategies the Department has used to try to see what is going on here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: It is probably the wrong word.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: That is fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: In reality, we have all proven that this is not the case. I have one question for Mr. Gunning. The figures he has given the committee are up to the end April. How many conciliatory decisions or opinions that the board is considering have there been since April? I just want the number. Is it one or up to five?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: I direct this question to Mr. McKeith, Mr. Quinn or Dr. Curtis. I do not know who will answer it. One of the things that came up at the last committee meeting was that a new patient record system was going to have to be ready to go. Where are we with that? Is that substantially done? Obviously, that would affect the timelines as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: I ask Mr. Quinn to be brief.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Is it substantially complete?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: Will Mr. McKeith just give us a percentage?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: With training and everything, I expect that but I want to know has the background work been done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: My last question is for Mr. Gunning. It is two questions in one in the sense that they overlap. I am not saying this is the right thing to do but was a design freeze at a certain point to finish the hospital ever considered? Based on what Mr. Gunning said previously, I know the board wants to get the hospital to a standard that is best in its class, but was it ever considered? The second...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: What about the design freeze?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Alan Kelly: I know, but it is just added on here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: I thank the Chair. I want to come back to that completion date. I think, last year, Mr. Gunning told us it was October and now we hear it is February 2025. Is that February 2025 date including the service activation period? No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: Mr. Gunning said a few minutes ago that February is achievable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: It could be done and dusted in February apart from the nine months' service activation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: Yes, which has to happen before it opens.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: The normal is nine as opposed to six.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (30 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: Is Mr. Gunning solely getting his information from BAM with regard to the completion date, February being the achievable one?