crazy 88 wrote: » Who would bring a sick child on the Luas?
Interested Observer wrote: » Be even harder to get to than Dublin for a lot of people. All the motorways go to Dublin.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » You do know that not everyone drives or has access to a car, right? We need a hospital with great public transport connectivity, as is standard in UK and around the world. The Luas literally runs beside this building.
IngazZagni wrote: » Aren’t the new satellite centres in Blanchardstown (which is an impressive looking new facility) and Tallaght included in the price? I’m not remotely saying that makes it okay but it’s important to acknowledge the existence of these new facilities providing urgent care and other specialist care to children.
rob316 wrote: » Cant we just build one huge hospital in the midlands somewhere? Cheaper and serves the whole country.
Smee_Again wrote: » This is not my experience of working on national HSE tenders, and we’ve been winning them. Besides what good is information about other tenders received? It’s too late at that point to have any impact. Any skullduggery will be long before that when the specs are being written. I can usually tell to within a few points what our score will be on the quality aspect of the tender before submission. Post submission I can reverse engineer our financial score versus the competition, so if anything is suspicious it’ll show up.
Pete_Cavan wrote: » I'm in the industry too. Not too long ago I was dealing with a QS who mentioned he used to work for BAM, he said he had to leave them because he saw the choice as either leaving them then or staying with them for the rest of his career as it meant falling out and burning bridges with so many others in the industry that it would be extremely difficult to move to another company if he stayed there for much longer.
McMurphy wrote: » Relocation of a few specialists? Money doesn't seem to be an obstacle to prevent that from happening, from where I'm looking at the project so far.
RandRuns wrote: » I share both your experience, and your opinion. The saying in the industry is that most building companies are a group of builders with an accountant - this company is a group of accountants with a builder. I witnessed some of the greatest scumbaggery I've ever seen in nearly 30 years in the industry with that shower.
bigroad wrote: » I worked with this building company before and I will say two things about them ,they are handy at getting government contracts and they are the greatest shower of scumbags I have ever m.. ...
ExMachina1000 wrote: » You have missed pages of posts. I never once said that there was an issue with the tendering for this project
ExMachina1000 wrote: » From experience with tenders I can tell you that it's not uncommon for one party to be given the details of the other tenders as they come in. All done as a favour of course with a reward if the contract is awarded. That's common enough. Not saying that's what happened here obviously but it definitely goes on. Cronyism built this country my friend.
Pete_Cavan wrote: » There is zero chance details of the other tenders as they come in. Massive tenders like this get submitted very close to the submission deadline. The work that goes into them is enormous and they are working on them as long as they can. The pricing in particular is under consideration right up to the end as they are weighing up being low enough to win the tender against the commercial risks involved. Even if someone got details of another tender several hours before the deadline, it wouldn't be enough time to adjust your own tender and get it in in time. All tenders are opened at the same time, not individual tenders opened as they are received. Multiple people will be in the room for opening tenders and the process is recorded and signed off. Electronic tendering means that digital records are available for when all tenders are opened. If you think tenders are opened by some lad alone well in advance of the deadline and info sent to other tenders, you clearly have no experience of tendering whatsoever.
salmocab wrote: » I never mentioned vast low level buildings or sprawling vast surface car parks. You’re arguing against things that haven’t been said. The NCH is already remote from these services and is spread over 2 hospitals and Tallaght. My idea give a better long term plan than trying to fit 3 hospitals onto one hospitals already tight plot.
Geuze wrote: » One reason for the location is that the consultants live in South Dublin, and will not travel to northwest Dublin. Never underestimate the effects of powerful vested interests.
ted1 wrote: » Co-location, gives access to specialist, you could build it in the Curragh but it could not deliver the same level of service and life’s would be lost.
McMurphy wrote: » Theres a lot of land already owned by the government that's just off major road, and about 20 minutes away from the red cow interchange. I can't understand why no one considered the Curragh as a possible site tbh.
Niner leprauchan wrote: » Its central for a reason. No person needs to travel the entire lenght of the county and the closer to the city, the higher the population density. Possible smaller centres dotted around the outskirts could have worked but that wasnt on the table. Its 3km from the red cow junction. where exactly would you like it placed?
[Deleted User] wrote: » Personally, I feel it should have been built on one of the green sites around this general area:https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3638795,-6.4278286,1588m/data=!3m1!1e3 (I'm not overly clued into dublin, but from Google maps that area looks unused) Buy all the green space, and start putting in plans to turn the area into a 'medical quarter' of sorts. Stick the Children's Hospital in, and draw up the plans for multiple more buildings to be built around it, as and when the time comes. Then when we need to build any new public health buildings, for whatever uses, they have space beside the Children's Hospital to do it. The population is growing and growing again, so there'll be need to build more hospital and medical/care facilities in the coming decades. Having a plan to bunch them all together, along with an ambulance base, large car park, etc. just makes sense to me. It's also right beside the M50 and M4. Journey time from to there from.. Dublin Port: 20mins Drogheda: 40mins Athlone: 1hr 15mins Galway: 2hr 5mins Cork: 2hr 45mins Almost every journey would be 90% motorway, no parking issues, no queues of traffic, no pedestrians, and close enough to large parts of Dublin that that sticking it on a couple of bus routes wouldn't be disruptive. But sure, I'm no expert.
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Pete_Cavan wrote: » In that case the NCH would be operating remote from many necessary facilities for decades or you'd be duplicating and splitting staff which would be more costly. You can't just build a sprawling low level building just because you have more space, it may be cheaper to build but leads to a less efficient hospital. It is more efficient to move trolleys between wards and clinical areas which are stacked vertically in lifts as much as possible than to push them large distances with less level changes. Also efficiencies in providing facilities for deliveries, maintenance, waste disposal, etc. at basement serving areas above by lift so it would still be a large multi leveled structure if built elsewhere. A vast surface car park would mean long walks from car to hospital with little or no shelter so you'd still want some basement or multi-storey parking structures.
ILoveYourVibes wrote: » Imagine if it falls down. I mean it feels like fate.
salmocab wrote: » I wasn’t suggesting they build them at the same time, more that they build the NCH then the maternity hospital that’s planned anyway. Both at a cheaper price than jamming them onto James’s hospital. These along with proper infrastructure and planning for access, parking and an energy Center etc would allow for a modern hospital to be built in the future. We’re talking about something that will be around for a century, I’d rather wait 30 years for the tri location than try to force it all into a site too small and inaccessible. I’ve brought my son to crumlin and an extra worry doing that is always parking. I can drive to crumlin in 20 minutes but PT would take me at about 90. Rialto will be worse for parking.
Eric Cartman wrote: » I don't think the hospital itself is a scam, but its location definitely is. In years to come there will almost certainly be a tribunal that will expose that somebody strongarmed that decision for their own gain and that the children in need of a hospital will have to suffer because it isn't correctly placed beside the M50 where it should always have been.
vicwatson wrote: » Gov offered a free site too. Turned it down
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