Children's Hospital won't be ready until May 2024

The National Children's Hospital is turning out to be the world's dearest children's hospital.

The National Children’s Hospital project in Dublin is unlikely to be ready before 2024, the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has heard.

Speaking at this afternoon’s PAC hearing, chair of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB), David Gunning,  spoke in stark terms of the difficulties that the board has experienced, in its view, while dealing with the principal contractor on the €1.7bn budgeted project BAM.