The three stooges

What skillsets would you like to see in the team managing a Euro 650M major design and construction project.

The Chairman of the board of the new national childrens hospital has resigned for the following reasons.....

Mr Gallagher said the executive team — consisting of former nurse and chief executive of the development board Eilish Hardiman, accountant Jim Farragher and paediatrician Dr Emma Curtis — did "not have the capacity to process, challenge and authorise the significant number of ‘change orders’ the project team generates".

This is on a par with putting a couple of prison warders in charge of the Thornton Hall project.

The significance of this, he said, was that nobody was disputing the costs of some change orders (written instructions about changes to a job already in progress, and the cost of this new work) or the validity of other change orders.

He said: "Given the scale of the project, the scope for change orders to get out of control and materially exceed budgets is high."

Mr Gallagher urged Dr Reilly to appoint "at least two" members to the executive team to control the day-to-day activity of the project, as well as a cost director to manage day-to-day costs, but with the NDFA in charge of ultimate sign-off.

He described the current project structure as "unworkable".

Mr Gallagher is the second chair of the development board to resign in less than six months. Philip Lynch resigned last October. Meanwhile, Ms Hardiman is to leave the board to take up a post at Tallaght hospital.

The project, which has been almost 10 years in the offing, has been dogged by delays. The current stoppage, pending completion of the review, is costing €330,000 per month.

This is a recipe for tens of millions in taxpayers money being flushed down the toilet and Dr Reilly needs to take his finger out and complete the review asap Euro 300K per month and nothing happening !!!!