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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: Is Mr. Devine saying that next week when we get this compliance programme we should have a good sense of when this job should be finished?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: I am stretching it out. I am asking because we have not known up to now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: I am working on the basis we did not get it this week so we might get it next week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: Okay. That is fine. Lastly, the witnesses referred to the €756 million in claims. Do we have any sense at this stage of what it will cost in legal fees? How much has it cost up to now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: Mr. Gunning can come back to us on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: The worrying thing, and one of the members has commented on this, is that the longer this goes on, the more it will cost and, it would appear, the more money the contractor will receive. Maybe that is not fair to the contractor, but the figure relating to claims is nearly coming up to the figure of the original cost. That would suggest there is some strategy, in that the board is being...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: I know they are claims.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: However, there seems to be a strategy on the part of one party in this. That is a really worrying development in relation to how long this will go on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: I presume BAM would have a different view in relation to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: Maybe at some stage we might get a sense of what it is or is not saying. I call Deputy Cullinane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: Three Deputies are indicating. They will have seven minutes each. Deputy Hourigan is first, followed by Deputy Shortall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Shortall.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: The Deputy has 30 seconds. Can she ask a question and get a response in 30 seconds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: I need to bring the meeting to an end. I will make one additional point regarding the additional capital request to Government. The media are reporting that, as of yet, the Department has not received a formal request for additional funding. That is not the understanding of the development board. Such a request has been sent in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: Okay. That is no problem at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: We are into two questions now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: The Deputy asked permission to ask one question and then asked two.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: He put a caveat to that. Deputy Hourigan tried to climb down on that point. If Mr. Gunning will pass the report to the committee as soon as possible, it would be appreciated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on New National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (12 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: I know there are challenges to go through. On behalf of the committee, I thank the representatives of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board for their latest engagement with the committee in respect of the progress and development of the new national children's hospital. The engagement has brought a focus again to the range of important and ongoing challenges facing the...
- Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)
Seán Crowe: With a shortage of affordable housing and increasing homelessness rates, the need for social housing has become more urgent than ever. The last thing Irish people want to hear is the excuse that homes cannot be built overnight. Fine Gael has been in power for 12 years. In those 12 long years, the level of homelessness has done nothing but grow. We have seen homelessness records broken...