Developer renews offer to build children's hospital

THE property developer who has offered to build Ireland’s children’s hospital on a non-profit basis has called for a reassessment of the decision to build the much-needed facility at the controversial Mater site in Dublin.

Noel Smyth said he wanted the development board to find out if there were still people like him prepared to build the hospital at cost so they could get the best deal for Irish children over the next 50 years.

Mr Smyth led a consortium in 2006 that offered to build the new children’s hospital at cost price and donate a site near Newlands Cross in Dublin.