National Children’s Hospital to lead to thousands of jobs in Dublin

Thousands of jobs will be created at the yet-to-be built new National Children’s Hospital at the St James’s Hospital campus in Dublin, it emerged yesterday.

An independent report on the €650m investment points out that 2,000 construction jobs, plus 300 jobs in services will be created during the construction phase.

About 3,700 National Children’s Hospital employees will join 4,000 existing St James’s Hospital employees on the growing medical campus.