Sadly, I suspect you're right. Although I'd hope it wouldn't be as late or over budget with different leadership.Somehow I don't think we'd be on budget and on time with a different Taoiseach and Health Minister.
It's a long way to push a trolly though.That site on the Naas road was only a few mins from Tallaght hospital. Methinks it would have been co-located enough.
The Government has asked consultants PWC to report into the overrun by March.
The terms of reference, seen by The Irish Times, state the review will “develop further recommendations necessary to address major residual risks, control and oversight issues and establish additional measures required to bring greater oversight of performance” and will “deal with the role and accountability of the relevant key parties” but will “stop short of determining culpability at the individual level.”
Are you cracked?If the project managers don’t get sacked then the Minister for Health should (and maybe he should go as well). Oversight of a project of this scale has to be part of the ministers core responsibilities.
No, it doesn't mean that at all.In Limerick they are getting a 60 bedded modular building. Is that just a fancy way of saying they are getting a prefab?
There should be. And greenfield sites would be ideal for such. As to why it's hard to know . . it seems that Irish politicians are good at getting elected and clinging to power when there, but not much else. Perhaps sub-optimal decisions, delay, and waste are the price we have to pay for democracy in Ireland.Why is there not a standard European or international best design established for a hospital , school , library police station etc . The client then simply picks the plans off the shelf for a one hundred , five hundred or thousand bed hospital ( fully equipped ) and puts it out to tender at a FIXED CONTRACT price.
It is generally accepted that a green field site was not a suitable option.And greenfield sites would be ideal for such.
It is generally accepted that a green field site was not a suitable option.
Did the look for the underground tunnel to Dublin 4 yet,At the risk of boring everyone I still suggest that at this point in the evolution of medicine plans should exist for " Standard hospital " with the only variable being the number of rooms . For that the client requires a concrete plinth of suitable size so no requirement for massively expensive designers .
This is on foot of reading that some of the extra costs are being caused by last minute design changes requested by doctors / consultants .
What sort of half-assed design planning process did they go through?At the risk of boring everyone I still suggest that at this point in the evolution of medicine plans should exist for " Standard hospital " with the only variable being the number of rooms . For that the client requires a concrete plinth of suitable size so no requirement for massively expensive designers .
This is on foot of reading that some of the extra costs are being caused by last minute design changes requested by doctors / consultants .
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