Health

Government expects children’s hospital to be delivered next year ‘as planned’

Hospital is due to be completed in March 2024, with plans for it to open in the second half of next year

  • May 30, 2023
Stephen Donnelly, Minister for Health, is “absolutely determined that we will not be putting any other projects at risk” due to project’s spiralling costs. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has said he expects the National Children’s Hospital to be delivered next year as planned, and maintained the Government’s position to not reveal its estimated cost.

The hospital is due to be completed in March 2024, with plans for it to open in the second half of next year.

It comes after it was revealed in the HSE’s Capital Plan for 2023 that €324 million has been allocated to the ...