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

Alan Kelly: Was it previous to Ms Ross, to be fair to her?

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)

Stephen Donnelly: To be clear, it is not being stated that it would open in June 2025. That is when we are looking to take over the hospital completely, at which point much of the commissioning then happens.

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

Stephen Donnelly: I will give my view. If BAM meets its 14th deadline, if we take full charge of the hospital in June, as it is stating we will, if our commissioning teams get early access to this so-called hot block and if the commissioning work proceeds as it is being planned, then the timeline would suggest the end of 2025. There is then a clinical decision about whether it is appropriate to move in the...

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

Stephen Donnelly: We now have a date that Royal BAM says it is standing over and intensive engagement on exactly the baseline programme of work the Cathaoirleach is talking about, such that BAM, Royal BAM and the board, on our behalf, can say this is real and can be done. Let us hope they emerge with that. Even if and when they emerge with that, we will then have to manage that programme of works closely to...

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

Stephen Donnelly: I will ask Mr. Tierney to come in with some of the detail in a moment. I would like to make two quick points in response to what the Cathaoirleach said. First, for children who are waiting on spinal care, be that outpatient appointments, diagnosis, surgery or aftercare, that care and sorting out what we need to do for those children are not contingent on this hospital opening. We have...

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

John Lahart: I made a comment and Senator Conway would have been hurt and taken back by it. It was off the cuff about Royal BAM being the room. I withdraw it. It was not intended. It was in the heat of the moment.

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

John Lahart: I was not suggesting that. It was an inappropriate comment and it was not intentional.

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

Stephen Donnelly: I cannot speak for whether or not they were surprised. They did not hear anything that was not in public domain in terms of the Government's position but, obviously, as to whether they were surprised or not, only they can answer that.

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

Stephen Donnelly: Yes. The Royal BAM chief executive was there and he was accompanied by the chief executive or the general manager - whatever the title is - for BAM UK and Ireland and the chief operating officer for BAM UK and Ireland.

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

Stephen Donnelly: Rather than trying to characterise their position, what I have no hesitation in saying is that BAM disputes a lot of what we have all discussed. It would be unfair of me to suggest that BAM simply said that it was sorry about all that and it will try harder. It is clear from the interactions the board has had with BAM over a long period that BAM has its view and it is a different view to...

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

Stephen Donnelly: The decision to contact Royal BAM was one I took subsequent to the meeting, first, with Ms Ross, and then, second, with the full board, on the back of BAM signalling that it was moving out to a June deadline.