Belfast's new maternity hospital at the Royal Victoria site is almost a decade behind schedule.
A member of Stormont's health committee has asked if the Belfast Health Trust should be placed on "special measures" considering the delays and costs surrounding Belfast's new maternity hospital.
A potentially dangerous bacteria was first discovered in the water systems at the hospital in 2022 and means there is no date yet for its opening.Experts are currently carrying a review into how significant the problem is at the site at the Royal Victoria Hospital.however on Thursday the committee heard that the worst-case scenario of water pipe repairs could run into many millions.
"It is very comprehensive what you have given us, but I am confused still about where the responsibility lay," Dillon said."If there are people who didn't do the right thing or who made a mistake or knew that something different should have been done, then we need to know and understand that, because it was public money."
"I recognise, and I indeed share, the health committee's frustration and the public's frustration with the delays and the cost increases associated with the maternity hospital scheme," she said. "If it were anywhere else, I would suspect, politely, these guys would be in special measures, they maybe as a trust can't be trusted with public money in terms of delivering services, because they are going way over budget."at the maternity hospital just weeks after it was officially accepted by the trust from the contractor.
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