Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Lessons Learned

Debate contribution by Mrs Diane Dodds on 27 January 2025.

MLA: Mrs Diane Dodds
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 27 January 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Maternity Hospital: Lessons Learned
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4759086

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I thank the Minister. I absolutely agree that the new children's hospital is an imperative for us in Northern Ireland. I spent many years of my life in the old children's hospital, and the conditions there have not improved significantly since that time. In reply to a question for written answer that I submitted to the Minister, which I received just this morning, the Minister stated that consultancy fees for the children's hospital are in the region of £25 million so far. Can he explain what that money was spent on and how we might prevent excessive — if that figure is not excessive — amounts of money from being spent on that element of the build?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 1425/22-27.

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