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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: Okay. At any point during the project, did any of the contractors, of which there are multiple and not just BAM, for any part or parcel of the project not register with the regulatory agency for any part of the work on the project that Ms Ross is aware of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: Ms Ross cannot confirm that that did not happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: I really just want to know if anyone is working on the site who has not been registered for any period. It is as simple as that. You would be checking those all the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: It is, in fairness, but some do not report to BAM. Some are sideways, as I understand it. I have rigorously gone through the whole process by which disputes happen because I am on the Committee of Public Accounts. I have gone through the issues of the employer representative, the board process, the meeting between the board and BAM, and then it comes down to the standing conciliator....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: I have raised this in the Dáil previously, so Ms Ross knows.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: That is incredible, for one simple reason. A couple of weeks ago, the chief executive of the board said directly to me, after I asked him a number of times, that he did have confidence. What has happened in the last couple of weeks to change that? Mr. Gunning had confidence, because he nodded at me, but Ms Ross does not have confidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: What has changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: So Mr. Gunning was wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: He did reply. He had confidence. A few weeks later, Ms Ross does not have confidence. That is frankly incredible, Chair.

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?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Lastly, the last time the board was in, they were saying that they were withholding the 15% in relation to payment. Is that still in place following the board's substantive meeting with Royal BAM?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Has that not changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: In relation to the baseline contract that the board kept coming back to in relation to that work schedule, is that what the board is waiting on now, coming back from BAM?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: Is Ms Ross saying that could be a number of weeks or months?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Ross. I propose we take a comfort break for-----