Health

Not a ‘snowball’s chance’ children’s hospital be will completed in 2024, Labour TD claims

Alan Kelly, the Labour TD, says he expects project costs will exceed €2 billion, in breach of €1.43 billion budget

NCH: The latest estimate on the project is that work on the building at the St James’s site will be completed by October 29, 2024. Picture: Fergal Phillips

There is not a “snowball’s chance in hell” that the new national children’s hospital in Dublin will be completed next year, it has been claimed.

The facility has been beset with delays and spiralling costs since it was first announced almost a decade ago.

The latest estimate on the project is that work on the building at the St James’s site will be completed by October 29, 2024.

A commissioning programme is likely to take ...