National Children’s Hospital to cost 'substantially' more than €2bn 

Construction company BAM had consistently only achieved 65% completion of its work programme performance targets to date, Public Accounts Committee was told. Picture: Colin Keegan/ Collins 

The new National Children’s Hospital is set to cost “substantially” more than €2bn when finally completed, though the body with responsibility for its construction insists having it finished by late 2024 is now “achievable”.

The project, first greenlit in 2015, was last budgeted to cost more than €1.7bn in 2019.