Hospital Board CEO Has "No Faith" In BAM: Kill-Based Firm Blamed For 15th Children's Hospital Delay

Thursday, 22 May 2025 12:19

By Martin Osborne

The Public Accounts Committee has heard the hospital won’t be handed over until the end of this September, and then it will take another nine months to get it ready for patients.

The new National Children’s Hospital won’t open until at least the end of June 2026.

It’s the fifteenth time the long awaited projected has been delayed.

The Public Accounts Committee has heard the hospital won’t be handed over until the end of this September, and then it will take another nine months to get it ready for patients.

David Gunning is CEO of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board.

He says he's no faith in contractors BAM, who are headquartered in Kill.

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