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26 Governance Rep ts 2020 | NMH Annual Rep t T he Committee had three primary areas of focus during 2020. While the COVID-19 pandemic caused a slight pause/interruption in the work and a temporary re-allocation of some of the Operation Readiness Team, the overall work continued and a number of milestones were reached. The first of these was the completion of the Business Case. This was prepared with the assistance of Accenture and HSE Estates and during the initial months of the year the Co-location Committee reviewed a number of drafts of individual chapters of the Final Business Case (FBC). The final version was reviewed and approved by the Co-location Committee in May and was then approved by the Project Board in June and submitted to the HSE. This was a significant milestone for the project. Unfortunately the FBC is still going through the HSE and Government review and approval processes but we anticipate that these processes will be completed by mid-2021. The next area was the Operational Readiness (OR) program which continued through the year despite a slight pause and by year-end the phase 1 of the OR was completed on target. This is another significant Co-Location Committ achievement and I would like to thank all members of the OR Team for all their hard work over the year. I would like to extend a special thanks to Ms Pauline Treanor who lead the OR for NMH and who retired in December 2020 having delivered the OR phase 1. We wish her all the best for her second retirement. Finally, the other work that continued was around the legal structures and primarily the documents relevant to the property and buildings. By year-end these documents had been substantially completed and agreed and we anticipate that now these documents are in a form agreed by NMH, SVUH and DOH that the next phase of the Project will commence with issuing of SAQs for enabling works and the main contract and also the assembly of the OR Phase 2 Team during 2021. We look forward to this new and exciting phase of the Project. I would like to thank all of the Committee members for their time, commitment and invaluable input over the course of the year. Stephen Vernon Chair Design view of the proposed co-location of the NMH on the St Vincent's University Hospital Campus at Elm Park.