The main contractor of the beleaguered National Children’s Hospital does not appear to have sufficient levels of workers on site to meet their latest completion deadline, the health minister has warned. Jennifer Carroll MacNeill will meet with the global CEO of BAM, Ruud Joosten, in the hospital on Friday. The National Children’s Hospital, on the site of St James’ Hospital in Dublin, has been besieged by delays and cost overruns. In the Mater Hospital, at the launch of the HSE’s new AI healthcare strategy, Ms Carroll MacNeill said she visited the National Children’s Hospital earlier this week and expressed frustration with the progress of the project. BAM 'has drifted'She argued BAM has already “drifted a week, two weeks”, and she is “worried that they will drift more”.

Source: Irish Examiner March 11, 2026 22:35 UTC