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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)
Neasa Hourigan: What is that deadline?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is there another deadline on the horizon?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I will not use all of my time, so the Senator need not worry. First of all, I am not entirely comfortable with describing this as a boilerplate public works contract because it was a two-stage situation that would not be found in every contract. That left us open to perhaps some of the difficulty we find ourselves in now. I want to go back to technical commissioning. Mr. Devine described...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, right up to substantial completion. Is there anything that is still out to tender?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Then all the subcontractors and all the specialist people have entirely been-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Have most of those tenders happened in the last six months? When did that tender process occur?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Let us take, for example, the change orders outlined by the board in the additional material. BAM is described as being in a joint venture with ClearSphere tendering for a specialist fit out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: When did that occur?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It was relatively recently, then, that we were still allowing BAM-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: BAM was still tendering for unique projects within this project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am just pointing out that slightly amazing fact. Going back to the lower-level claims, Mr. Gunning was saying quite a large proportion were below €10,000 and BAM has refused to come to the table. He described how the board has offered a sum or some kind of agreement on that and BAM has refused to come to the table. I assume that even without that offer there would be a bundling...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is Mr. Gunning describing it as the contractor choosing not to settle on those lower-level claims because it provides evidence for its-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: -----larger claim.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: All right. That certainly helps BAM in the media. On the liquidated damages mentioned in the opening statement, we do not have a huge amount of information about what that is. Is it a pre-agreed sum?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: And what is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Does Mr. Gunning mean €15 million by year, by month or what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: In the context of €2.2 billion that is not a huge amount.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: All right, but the pre-estimate is agreed at the time of signing the contract, which is before you understand the inflation implications and the implications of delay. I understand the concept-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: -----of liquidated damages and am not arguing the board could have done anything different. I am just saying that in the context of €2.2 billion €15 million is a drop in the ocean.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (25 Sep 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay, I thank the witnesses.