Refusal to update on National Children's Hospital 'unacceptable' 

Building works taking place on the site of the National Children’s Hospital in Dublin last year. File picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

The head of the Public Accounts Committee has said a refusal on the part of the State to give an update on the National Children’s Hospital is “unacceptable”, and described the project as “lost at sea”.

In February, at a PAC meeting which had itself been delayed by three months, the chief officer of the National Paediatric Health Development Board had assured the committee that a review of the project, including updated costs and revised completion date, would be delivered within a month. No such update has yet been received.