Board won't reveal new BAM timeline for children's hospital

This week, it emerged that external investigators hired to review the works on the site had been “excluded” from the campus for six weeks. File picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

The board tasked with delivering the National Children’s Hospital has said it will not comment on a potential date for the hospital to be finished, despite receiving an updated timeline from developers BAM this week.

The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) has said it could take up to three months to review BAM’s latest programme, which sets out the plan of action for delivering the hospital between now and its estimated completion date. The NPHDB has been at loggerheads with BAM over the delivery of the hospital, with ballooning costs set to push the total final cost to over €2bn.