Irish Examiner view: National Children's Hospital saga is a neverending story

On Wednesday we discovered that the vital infrastructure will miss its 18th completion deadline on April 30

Controversial is an inadequate description of the long-running National Children's Hospital saga. File picture: Stephen Collins/Collins

Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 - 00:56

Yesterday morning, it seemed that the most likely headline from the looming Oireachtas health committee meeting was a potential €40m charge for developers BAM because of delays with the new National Children’s Hospital.

However, this was soon overtaken by news that BAM will not meet the completion date of April 30 for the hospital, as revealed by National Paediatric Hospital Development Board David Gunning to the committee.