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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)

Róisín Shortall: I would appreciate it if Mr. Gunning would. Is it not highly unlikely that those claims will be resolved by June of next year?

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

Róisín Shortall: Okay, thank you. That is Mr. Gunning's view.

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

Róisín Shortall: My concern, which I voiced last year, is that there are so many outstanding legal claims that effectively the developer could have the board over a barrel when the opening day arrives. That is my concern and I am just repeating that concern. Mr. Gunning said the board is doing everything in its power to bring this project to completion. He said not an extra cent and so on. He talked...

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

Róisín Shortall: Mr. Gunning said that. What is the third one?

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

Róisín Shortall: How often has the board or a representative of-----

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

Gino Kenny: I thank the board for its presentation, which was very detailed. I am sure the witnesses are extremely frustrated, to say the least, by this soap opera. In the meantime, the taxpayer, everybody in the country, is on the hook for this and there is obviously no hospital. Do the witnesses accept the statement BAM made during the week to the effect that the hospital is 93% complete?

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

Gino Kenny: It is in everybody's interests that this is-----

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

Gino Kenny: On the other 10%, what is left to complete the hospital?

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

Gino Kenny: None of those are complete or signed off at this moment in time.

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

Gino Kenny: In Mr. Devine's opinion, are any of the rooms at any stage where they could be signed off, where we could say they are complete and the construction workers can move on?

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

Gino Kenny: Does Mr. Devine envisage that when a tranche of rooms is given the green light it will happen quickly? It will not be a case of a single room being ready for Tuesday. I presume hundreds will be ready.

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

Gino Kenny: Those resources are not there, in Mr. Devine's opinion, when it comes to BAM's commitment to signing off on these rooms.

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

Gino Kenny: These are quite obvious questions, but if the contractor committed those resources to finalise those rooms things would move very quickly on.

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

Gino Kenny: It seems like common sense.

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

Gino Kenny: Yes, but at the moment the board is saying that with the baseline programme, there is an absence of a commitment by BAM to even do that.

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

Gino Kenny: I hope this does not happen, but is there a situation where this just goes on and on and the hospital is never finished at the level of final details. While there is intransigence from BAM, could this go on and on until the Government says that if BAM is not going to complete the job it will have to get somebody else in? That would delay the project for years, I assume.

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

Gino Kenny: On the claims that are in litigation, there is a concentration of claims. I think 18 was the figure given. What is the dispute between BAM and the State? What is at the heart of that dispute?

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

Gino Kenny: That is fair enough.

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

Gino Kenny: How common would it be in big civic projects such as this to go into that amount of litigation and dispute?

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

Gino Kenny: I know.