Children’s hospital to scoop €200m from Lotto sell-off

The Lotto sell-off will unlock €200m in ring-fenced funding for the long-delayed National Children’s Hospital, the Government has pledged.

Children’s hospital to scoop €200m from Lotto sell-off

Public Expenditure Reform Minister Brendan Howlin promised that almost half the money from the €405m privatisation deal would be ploughed into the Dublin medical centre due to open at the end of the decade.

However, the money will not come on stream until licence operators make the second part of their payment for the Lotto next year.

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