"Critically, many of those rooms were 'chequerboarded' throughout floors and areas of the hospital rather than being offered in a zoned, consistent or logical manner. What is needed is whole zones or blocks of rooms, from the ground floor up to the sixth floor in order to gain and benefit from meaningful additional early access for Children's Health Ireland."
"What is needed now is for BAM to provide the resources necessary to complete the over 5,800 rooms in this building to the standard set out in the contract and to hand them over to the NPHDB in a logical, methodical and timely manner, first facilitating additional early access as it committed to, and then the timely substantial completion of the entire building."
Updates from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) show that many offered rooms still have open snags, with only around 800 rooms satisfactory — under 15% of the total. Completed rooms are 'chequerboarded' across floors and areas rather than provided in zoned blocks, preventing meaningful additional early access for Children's Health Ireland. BAM claims the project is about 99% complete and has expressed disappointment at earlier remarks. Ongoing design changes are not considered a credible explanation for outstanding work. BAM must supply resources to finish over 5,800 rooms to contractual standards and hand them over methodically to enable early access and substantial completion.
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