National Children’s Hospital ‘held hostage’ in negotiations with BAM, health committee hears

David Gunning of the National Paediatric Development Board told the Oireachtas health committee he could not say the June 2025 timeline will be met without that level of detailed report from the builders BAM.

“We need a detailed programme which we can analyse and scrutinise.”

Another slip in the timeline is not impossible, he added.

He added that “as of today not one room has been fully completed”.

Some 3,100 rooms including theatres have yet to be signed off as complete.

Earlier, the officials said there is the potential to finally be completed by next June, or around that time, if BAM delivered in how it was resourcing the job.

Amid accusations that the builders BAM were holding the hospital as “hostage” to extract more money, with additional claims of over €700m, it also emerged that some signs of progress in speeding up the final stages of the long-delayed hospital were seen last week.

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The meeting heard…