Children's Hospital has cost €873m to-date

In a note for the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Department of Health secretary-general Robert Watt said that “by the end of this year, it is expected that approximately €873m of the €1.433bn capital budget will have been drawn down”.

Ireland’s new National Children’s Hospital has cost €873m to date, a figure far short of its most recently projected budget, according to the Department of Health.

In a note for the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Department secretary-general Robert Watt said that “by the end of this year, it is expected that approximately €873m of the €1.433bn capital budget will have been drawn down”.