The project has been blighted by delays as well as cost increases, from an estimated €650 million in 2014 to €2.2 billion
The developers of the new national children’s hospital have said it will be complete by June next year, the Minister for Health has said..
READ MORE - Board says National Children's Hospital held 'hostage' amid fears June 2025 date will 'slip'Following completion, there will be an approximately six-to-eight-month commissioning period before the site is ready to accept children as patients. He told RTE’s This Week programme: "I met the global chief executive of Royal Bam. We had a pretty open and frank discussion; I hope it was a productive discussion.
"They simply have not had enough workers on site, there have not been enough people on site finishing off that hospital," he said.
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