Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

As I said earlier, I would still expect it between the end of the second quarter and sometime in the third quarter, which is next summer. We have to continue to press for clinical services to have commenced in the new hospital. If the early access that CHI have been promised happens in November, regardless of the finish date by BAM, that will expedite this and will help. Again, I have to say we are ultimately reliant on BAM to tell us when they are finishing and to stick to that. That is the fundamental issue.