National Children's Hospital: 'As of today not one room has been fully completed'
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- The new National Children’s Hospital’s €2.2 billion price tag might grow even further, a member of the Oireachtas Health Committee has warned.
The Chief Executive of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board appeared before the committee today and outline why construction company BAM has moved its completion date 14 times in the past four years.
David Gunning told the committee the approach being taken by BAM shows complete disregard for sick children, young people and their families.
Committee member Fine Gael Senator Martin Conway said he was not confident the committee will get all the information they need.
“We need to know when this facility will be opened so sick children in Ireland can be cared for in a facility where they deserve to be cared for,” he said.
“Where are the spiralling costs going to end? Serious questions have to be asked.
“I’m hopeful that we’ll get some answers; am I confident? I am but I’m hopeful.”
Senator Conway said the public deserve to know how much more of their money might need to be spent on extra construction costs.
“We need to find out in granular detail exactly what’s happened, how much this has overrun so far and what is it likely to overrun,” he said.
“We’re told figures of €2.24 billion, will it stop at that and what is the worst case scenario.”
Last week, the Government announced the opening of the National Children’s Hospital had been delayed again with 2026 a possible opening date.
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An absolute embarrassment to Ireland - our ineptitude makes us a laughing stock.
But the crooks planned it well
It's not ineptitude, it's daylight robbery. The politicians and contractors are far from inept when the money is pouring into their bank accounts.
Alternatively ireland is the best place to extract tax income into private hands
The most expensive Hospital in the whole World! Absolute shambles!!!
Building! Most expensive Building in the world, and it aint over yet.
@@GG-jw8pt more expensive than the world' biggest skyscraper in Dubai
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And Wembley stadium put together!
And no one knows who got what there was that many brown envelopes flying around
Probably end up being the most poorly run too
Why are we not focusing on the engineering of this building BAM are only the builders it's the consultant engineering that issued more than 20 thousand drawings.
Couldn’t build it , won’t be able to staff it and if you don’t live in Dublin you won’t be able to get to it,
You just about summed it up. Incompetence enshrined in the Constitutions.😥
It's a 1hour + commute for plenty of people in Dublin
This is not incompetence this is pure corruption@@josephmurphy1509
23,000 changes throughout the construction is insane. One major story from the builders who had previous experience in hospital construction is the surgeries areas. They had it nearly finished and the planners came back and said no we need to change the design which was significant change, from air handling, electrical, plumbing and serious foundational changes to the structural part and it had to be demolished and redone to the new designs. That is absolutely insane. The plans of any construction should be set in stone before any construction to be started. You cannot plan for constant changes in construction plans.
When I heard the Gov. Rep. scapegoating BAM, if you know the Irish politicians? They are the biggest bunch of incompetents that ever walked the Earth.
Sounds like it "wham bam thank you ireland"
THE WASTE OF MONEYIN THIS COUNTRY IS BEYOND SHOCKING.....😮😮😮 ITS WORSE I EVER HEARD
It's not wasted though...its definitely been pocketed by greedy suits
I have heard from the different Gov. bodies on what the problems are. I would like to hear from now as well from the Company (BAM) on their side of the story?
Some how I don’t think that will be allowed to happen 😮
And that's for sure look at d circus d bike shed is already a big joke to these people
They have said this lot have made 25,000 changes in the build period
While BAM have a right to present their position as to their inflating of costs and delays if what is being said by David Gunning (i.e. a clear case of not honouring a contract) is correct they must be held to account and fined for non delivery! In the interim of the final delivery of NCH to spec contractually required they need to be blackballed from bidding on any further state projects (infrastructure, civils, other) under the 165 Billion National Development Plan & remain blackballed until NCH completed and any fines, over billing addressed and reimbursed to The State!
Bam should be Banned from all government contracts for building hospitals and Schools and all other contracts for any other buildings nobody has The Ball's to stand up to them plus they should have been held to the price they gave
For a multi year project an accurate price isn't possible. Cause material prices have skyrocketed as well as labour costs. Don't think it excuses the price being over double (so far) but the project going north of 650m was always going to happen.
Sure have your tried to get a tradesman to do something in the house? Boom and bust and it's a huge boom at the moment
Bam are the patsy to cover this lots arsed. Set up to get public funds into private sector In this they are massively successful and will just rebound. This bunch of troughfeeders will sail on till pensioned
Talk about the Nobel Prize for Embarrassing
A holy show
He is very patriotic, map of Ireland on his forehead
I just hope a bike shed is not on the plans!
Ban bicycles from d new hospital
How is this possible?
Because its Ireland
I believe the government have revised plans multiple times. I've heard some 14 different occasions. they have a legal proceedings with the government with some 2000 different claims. the courts have agreed with 1000 so far, i think it is ongoing. you would need to look into it further because mine is a second hand sours. BAM Group could also be to blame in places
Because, the government and it's appointed cronies are incapable of doing their jobs and duty. The bottom line is simple, nobody truly cares, if they did they wouldn't let consultants get their own way and the hospital would have been built in a far more suitable place, like along the M50.
Besides all of the above, this is Ireland governed by politicians that think commenting on the price of Oasis tickets is more important than running the country in a proper fashion.
Worth bearing in mind, it's the children that are one's suffering thanks to total incompetence of the government the buck stops there, not with BAM as has been mentioned previously.
@@johnmcdonnell81fully agree
@@johnmcdonnell81100% correct.
What a circus 🎪 ..
And this same company got the contract for the new rail system in Cork how could you give it to Bam if this is the outcome of this hospital because everyone is getting money including them in kildare st. It's a joke
It is not the contractor company is at fault. It is the changing designs during construction that massively increased costs. The change in design forced the destruction of any newly constructed building works already constructed to build the new revised design. That is the embrassment.
More expensive than the Burj Khalifa
BAM should be banned from getting any more government contracts, they are a disgrace.
The failure of effective governance since 2013 is starkly evident, with the hospital still only 40% completed after 11 years. This level of incompetence demands serious accountability. Imprisonment should be considered for those responsible, including BAM, whose behavior resembles that of irresponsible, cowboy builders.
His whole fringe is the island of Ireland 😂i believe him
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Wait till d snag lists appear . Another bill for d taxpayers we all know government work a nod and a wink for d cronies
@@noelfleming3567 snags are being dished out left right and centre, some meaningful others are ridiculous. Snags raised have been completed many months to areas inspected without being officially closed by DT for them to walk back into these areas up to 6 months down the line again and raise more. Just the tip of the iceberg for continuous delays of handover, BAM are been thrown under the bus, they aren’t squeaky clean but the people over them are the bigger issue
Someone in the OPW is having a laugh…
@@klassonder2508 with a healthy bank account
Mega brown envelopes passed around …
Legacy of FFFG /Greens
Investors making billions of the delays I bet.
June 25 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Breach of contract
Beyond a farce.
I often wonder why BAM ever got the contract??? Must be a few people pushing that sceanario. They seem to get a lot of major state contracts.
Does this mean we won’t ever get the Bertie Bowl now?
The Celtic Banana Republic.
Here government smell o-shite of your funny handshake 😑
Bam won't receive another cent. Well, maybe another few hundred million.
You couldn’t make it up 😂
By the time it's finished, the children will be adults.....a complete fiasco and national embarrassment.
I cant stand people saying incompetence its pure corruption and the bike shed aswell what a joke