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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 Crowe: Apologies have been received from Senator Annie Hoey. Before we get into the main item on today's agenda, minutes of the committee's meetings of 18 September 2024 have been circulated to members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed. The purpose of today's meeting is for the joint committee to receive an update on the construction of the new national children's hospital from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. Gunning. I will move straight away to members' questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: Senator, you asked a question. Will you let the witness respond, please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall is finished asking her questions. She got the last one in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: We got a briefing note yesterday as well from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board about the wheelchair issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Crowe: No problem.
- 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?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: Following on from the previous question by Deputy Lahart, it only took a very short time for the two sides to get together and work out what was required to resolve the problem in accordance with requirements set down by the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and the contractor. 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: Before any alarm was set off, for want of a better term, about the suitability of the grills, would it not have been better to sit down quietly with each other and work out a solution rather than trying to exaggerate the difficulty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That is 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: Whose fault was that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: That was a tremendous achievement-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: -----without any of the hoo-ha about its setting the development back by a year and all that kind of thing.
- 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 want to concentrate on one other question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Bernard Durkan: It was resolved at the time and given the degree to which the contractor will continue to allege it costs €25 million, what was the actual cost?