The State did not plan the project properly or put adequate controls in place and is now paying the price
The completion date for the new National Children’s Hospital is currently February 2025 but faith in the deadline is increasingly a triumph of hope over experience.
The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board , which is responsible for delivering the much delayed €2.24 billion plus project, hasBAM, the Dutch-owned construction firm that is building the hospital, has not told the NPHDB how it plans to meet the February deadline anThe current row is part of a pattern that sees the NPHDB blaming BAM for delays – the hospital was due to open in 2022 – and for cost increases.
Sinéad O’Connor waxwork: ‘You have to get the proportions right. That’s not easy, especially with ladies’Look inside the most expensive house sold in Dublin so far this yearin 2016 that work commenced before the hospital design had been finalised and costed. This is a common approach in projects of this type but asby the government found in 2019 the necessary controls required to mitigate the associated risks and consequences of this approach were not put in place.
As a consequence, the project could never have been delivered within the financial parameters agreed, according to PwC, who attributed much of the responsibility to the NPHDB. A key observation made by PwC is that if the true costs of the project had been known at the outset it probably would not have been built in its current form. It is worth focusing on this as we look to the opening of a truly world-class facility next year – and plan other major State investments for the years ahead.
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