Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children’s Hospital: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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I happened to have been on the hospital site in a private capacity on numerous occasions in the past 12 months. I learned an awful lot. One can learn from a site inspection. Mine was not an official site inspection, I might add. I was there, and I must say it is a complicated project. Any complicated project will require the minutiae to be dealt with as part of the overall project.

Can I obtain reassurances on other aspects of this matter? For instance, I meet people in the street who say that there is no helicopter landing pad, no controlled car parking and so on. Is it possible to address these issues. I know the answers to the questions, but officially we need to have them. We also need to know if there are other issues that we might need to add on, given the passage of time and regulations that might come into play.