Children’s Hospital review ‘will not assign blame’

No-one involved in delivering the most expensive capital health project in the history of the State will be held personally responsible for the financial fiasco it has become, according to the terms of reference of an expert review.

While the PwC report will seek to establish the “sequence of events” that led to the cost of the National Children’s Hospital snow-balling to €1.7bn, with no guarantee it won’t reach €2bn, it will “stop short of determining culpability at the individual level”.