‘Not one’ of 3,000 rooms offered as complete are ‘of expected, acceptable standard’Work priced at €25m ‘was carried out for €200k by another contractor’
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly accuses builder BAM of ‘resourcing the project at less than half of what is required’
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said: ‘It is the view of the board that BAM’s approach is based on extracting as much money from the Irish taxpayer as possible’
None of the 3,000 rooms finished so far by the builder of the new National Children’s Hospital (NCH) “were completed to the expected, acceptable standard”, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
The extent of a shocking snag list emerged as it was announced the project will miss yet another deadline, with fears now that it will not take patients until 2026.
