The completion date for the new National Children’s Hospital will be further delayed, the Public Accounts Committee will hear.
The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board will tell the PAC today that the hospital will not be substantially completed by the end of October.
The board said the latest monthly report from contractors BAM has indicated a further delay to the substantial completion date of 29 October.
Once the hospital has been completed it will then have to be commissioned which will take several months.
Some TDs fear this latest delay will mean that no child will be treated at the hospital until 2026.
The total amount spent to date on the new national paediatric hospital up to April is €1.4 billion.
The original estimated cost of the project in 2015 was €650m.
BAM has submitted 2,782 extra claim costs, of which 2,182 have been valued at a cost of around €785m.
However only a small amount of the claims have been determined in favour of BAM to the value of over €22.8m.
The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board will tell the PAC that the net change to the overall contract value is around €27m, including conciliations and adjudications on extra claims.
Other claims are in a disputes management process and two proceedings are before the High Court.
Once completed the new hospital will have 6,000 clinical spaces, 380 in-patient bedrooms and 22 operating theatres.
Additional reporting Fergal Bowers
