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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: The development board has been before the committee several times, as the Minister will be aware, and it has appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts several times. Both committees have been utterly frustrated for a long time, because every time the board came to speak to us, its members were throwing their hands in the air and seemed completely helpless. There was a stand-off...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I apologise for interrupting. Time is ticking. What was the upshot of the meeting?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Two weeks ago, the Minister was quoted as saying that BAM Ireland was seeking to extract as much money from the Irish taxpayer as possible. Did he repeat that charge to Royal BAM Group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What was its response?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Did it strenuously deny the charge or did it accept the Minister had a point? What was its response? It is a serious allegation to have made.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Did it dispute it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Was that Royal BAM Group or BAM Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: At the meeting in July last year, at the meeting two weeks ago and indeed at previous meetings, when I asked Mr. Gunning what needed to happen for the project to get back on track, he said two things needed to happen: first, sufficient staff needed to be on site, which would be approximately double the current number, and, second, BAM Ireland needed to produce a compliance programme. Will...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What commitment, if any, was given about staffing levels and doubling the current number of staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: That is not very strong, saying it will review the current proposal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: We got those figures-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Mr Gunning said that approximately double the number of staff was needed on site. Did the Minister get into the detail of that with Royal BAM Group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. Gunning said two things needed to happen. Did the Minister pursue those two matters with Royal BAM Group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: What did Royal BAM Group say about staffing levels?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Has Royal BAM Group been in touch with the board since?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: When does the board expect to reach an agreement on the level of staffing required?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: This is all taking up a huge amount of time. When does the Department expect to be in a position to have agreed the number of staff and the compliance programme? When are we going to see progress and a breakthrough?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Are we just at the point of hoping at this stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: It would be great to get something more positive and concrete out of that meeting. When does the Department expect to be able to announce progress?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: Discussion (9 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: Everything is very vague, and Ms Ross is saying it could take weeks or even months. When will we find out when this project is going to get back on track? When will we have a completion date we can believe and a final cost for the project?