Tralee General Hospital project costs
Spring asked for the hospital’s total cost and the contractors, consultants and other firms involved, with payments to each. O’Hanlon put the project cost at about £26 million and identified P.J. Walls (D) Ltd. as the main contractor; the response is cut off before giving further details.
asked the Minister for Health in relation to Tralee General Hospital, County Kerry (1) the overall cost of the hospital (2) the names of all contractors, sub-contractors, consultants, architects and quantity surveyors involved in the project and (3) the sums of money paid to each.
Comment on this
The total capital cost of the Tralee General Hospital project, including the cost of construction work, fees and equipment, is of the order of £26 million.
The Southern Health Board was the employer under the terms of this contract and the main contractor was paid by the board in accordance with certificates issued by the architects as the work progressed. These certificates included any amounts due to nominated sub-contractors and the contract required the main contractor to pay these sub-contractors. The main contractor was Messrs P.J. Walls (D) Ltd. and the amount paid by the board to this company in respect of all contract work (including sub-contracts) was £17.684 million. The information which the Deputy is seeking in relation to the sub-contractors is being assembled in my Department and I will send it to him in the near future.
The design team, and the amounts paid to the members of this team by the board, are as follows: