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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)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the witnesses. Having been on-site on two occasions with the committee, it is clear it is a very impressive building. It will be a world-class facility. At some stage these issues will be resolved and it will be about the care and well-being of children. The issue is we do not know when that will be. We do not know how many additional costs will be incurred between now and then....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: There is an issue between the number of claims and the value of the claims. These are clearly disputed. Mr. Gunning said in his statement that 1,648 claims are disputed but of those, 1,106 claims have a disputed value of less than €10,000. It adds up to €1.83 million, which is a sum of money, but is not in the order of the issues we are dealing with. There is an issue with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: Okay. It was reported in the media during the week that following visits by certain doctors or consultants that a number of the rooms were not wheelchair accessible. Is that the case, and how in God's name would it be true if that is the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: It was reported again at the weekend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: That is an important clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: It is an important clarification. I apologise, I missed the private meeting yesterday. It is something that was reported at the weekend, so it is an important clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: I take up Deputy Kenny's point. Some 94% of the building is complete. That is positive. However, the witnesses are saying that the issues relate to what are more than snags and are important issues relating to completing the sign-off of the individual rooms. Were those issues that could not have been seen in the oversight as the building and the first rooms were going along? Could they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: Is the issue that equipment was not put in, or that the wrong type of equipment was put in, instead of putting in the correct equipment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: Ventilation and ceiling issues were mentioned. Was something done wrong in every room that could have been sorted at the start if they were inspected?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: It is not the one issue repeated in every room.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: If those 5,000 plus rooms are brought up to standard, is that getting the NPHDB to 100%, or are there other outstanding issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: Is that a commissioning issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: That is all commissioning.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Kyne: Absolutely, but those are all commissioning issues.

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 have a question on the grills. At the time of the announcement that the grills were wrong, who decided they were wrong? Where they specified in the original specification as round or square grills for air extraction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Was all that provided for in the contract? For instance, if windows in a house or a block of houses are moved, that must be provided for in the contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: So, was it provided for in the contract or not?

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 am asking if it was extra to the contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)

Bernard Durkan: At the time of the announcement that the grills were not the appropriate grills, I presume the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board blamed the contractor and the contractor blamed the board. Would that be right?

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 say that because it was stated publicly in the media that this would set back the opening date of the hospital by a considerable time. Is that not correct?