NCH to miss completion date for 15th time, PAC to hear

The latest deadline for the completion of the multi-billion euro National Children’s Hospital is set to be missed by more than three months, with the project now unlikely to be finished until September, TDs will be told.

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) chief executive David Gunning is expected to tell the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that construction firm BAM’s progress is “insufficient” for the June deadline to be met.

The development will be the 15th time the project has failed to meet its final deadline since 2020, and that a pre-general election government promise for work on it to be finished this June will now be broken.

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