Details of largest additional payment to BAM over delays on State side of project not explained to committee when it heard from development board on Thursday
National Children's Hospital
Conciliator recently proposed sum should be paid to BAM after firm sought further payments for project delays until last year
Development marked by missed deadlines and ballooning costs
With massive State investment planned over the next few years in a range of areas, it is vital that lessons are learned and applied in future big projects
Hospital will not be able to admit patients until August 2025 at the earliest, public spending watchdog hears
The project has been beset by delays and spiralling costs but it was expected that ‘substantial completion’ of the hospital would happen by October 29th
Construction of hospital expected to be completed this year with first patients treated from summer 2025
Baoding’s hospital and the vast Xiong’an model city 50km away show the virtues of design, planning and state ownership of land
Construction has begun on facility to accommodate families of patients at the new hospital
Why the children’s hospital in Crumlin should not be decommissioned
Ireland needs to invest massively – in housing, infrastructure, public transport, climate change. But as the public finances tighten this will require better delivery and tough decisions
The problem isn’t the overrun - it is that the cost was grossly underestimated and all the information the market needed to squeeze the Government was made public
Public numbed to escalating costs of decades-long saga from which Coalition will glean little credit
Cost of building the hospital has increased by €512 million, to €2.24 billion, Stephen Donnelly tells Cabinet colleagues
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