Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 May 2025
Public Accounts Committee
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion
2:00 am
Cathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
I thank everybody for coming today. Regarding the children's hospital, the public is completely outraged at what seems to be a ballooning budget all the time with no end in sight. I am trying to get a handle on the scale of the mismanagement. The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board was established in 2007 and in 2009, the then Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, announced that the children's hospital would open in late 2014. In 2015, a report was commissioned by the board and indicated at that stage that the hospital would cost €650 million. Is that all correct?
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