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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: In the public interest, will the Minister give us two or three takes from that meeting with Royal BAM? What was the significance of its involvement as opposed to that of its Irish subsidiary?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: Will the Minister explain this for members of the public who are watching? I am sure most of them get what is involved. What does the commissioning of the building mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: There is fitting out, trial and error testing and all of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: There are suggestions that, because there is a delay, things in the hospital are obsolete, not fit for purpose or out of date. Will the Minister comment on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: Who attended the meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: With Royal BAM.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: I have one final question for Ms Ross. This is the first time I have encountered her. I wish her the best of luck in her role. What are her takes from that meeting with Royal BAM?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: What has given Ms Ross the grounds for that? Was it the meeting, its tone, or the engagement? What justifies it when talking to a taxpayer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: What is the significance of the early access for commissioning? That is maybe lost on me as a layman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: One of the questions I had concerning the commissioning is that we know not one room or space has been finished and signed off on. How, therefore, can the commissioning happen with that background? How can that happen when the rooms are clearly not finished? Last week, I asked about MRI machines, CT machines and other similarly very expensive machines. Will this aspect be prioritised in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: It sounds like Royal BAM is in the room already.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
John Lahart: It is what it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: I thank Senator Conway. I will let Deputy Alan Kelly in now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: Ten minutes for your questions and then the answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: People are asking two questions about the hospital, one of which is when it will open. We are being told it will be June 2025 but we are not sure on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: We are not sure of the exact date when we will open. Is that what the Minister is saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: We do not have an exact date. We have a ballpark time for when it may or may not happen depending on the works that are carried out. The frustration that we heard the last time, when the board was in, was that there was no baseline contract. In other words, there was no work schedule that the board was confident would go ahead. On the back of the Minister's meeting with Royal BAM, have we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: The concern I have and, I suppose, most people would have is in relation to that contract. It was said that lessons were learned from that. Could the Minister outline what lessons were learned? There is a backdrop of a maternity hospital that is to be built. Will we have to go through the same difficulties with that? This process has dragged out. There was clear frustration from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: At some stage, maybe Mr. Tierney could provide the committee a note on it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Seán Crowe: -----because we are all worried. We do not want to see this repeated. In relation to the maternity hospital, will we see that built by the end of the decade?