Irish Examiner view: If a job’s worth doing...

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board chief officer David Gunning (right) and project director Phelim Devine leaving Leinster House after they appeared before the Oireachtas health committee. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Anyone who retains the capacity to be surprised by the ongoing chaos at the National Children’s Hospital project had plenty to consider yesterday when David Gunning, the chief officer of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB), briefed the Oireachtas Committee on Health on the current situation.

For much of the population, however, there must now be a sense of completion fatigue, with the date for finishing work on the new hospital delayed over and over again.