{"id":337205,"date":"2026-02-14T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/337205\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:52:07","slug":"additional-payments-of-e60m-deemed-due-to-bam-as-part-of-childrens-hospital-project-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/337205\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional payments of \u20ac60m deemed due to Bam as part of children\u2019s hospital project \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additional payments of more than \u20ac60 million have been determined to be due to Bam, the main contractor on the construction of the new national children\u2019s hospital<\/a>, the D\u00e1il Public Accounts Committee has been told.<\/p>\n

In a letter dated February 5th, the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board <\/a>(NPHDB) said it was \u201cactively defending\u201d claims to the value of \u20ac899 million issued by Bam to the employer\u2019s representative \u2013 the independent third-party managing the contract. It said this included claims that had been \u201cduplicated or triplicated\u201d.<\/p>\n

The letter said that in relation to claims of \u20ac60.2 million, the employer\u2019s representative had determined that there was an entitlement to the payment. It is understood that these payments are not being disputed by the NPHDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other additional payments of about \u20ac145 million awarded to Bam on foot of several claims are subject to appeal in the High Court. Bonded payments have been made to the contractor <\/a>pending the final outcome of these proceedings. <\/p>\n

The NPHDB said in its letter to the committee that it continued \u201cto do everything in its power to compel Bam to complete its work and fulfil its contractual responsibilities\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cBam has delayed its expected substantial completion date 18 times over the past five years. Bam\u2019s latest programme update was provided to the employer\u2019s representative, the independent third party managing the contract, on 9 January 2026. In it, Bam states that the substantial completion date [for the new children\u2019s hospital<\/a>] is 30 April 2026, which is 40 months later than the revised contract date [of December 2022].\u201d<\/p>\n

The new hospital <\/a>was first proposed in 1993 and, after several false starts, a planning application was lodged in 2015 with an estimated price of \u20ac650 million and an initial completion date of 2020.<\/p>\n

The NPHDB maintained that Bam <\/a>\u201chas not adequately resourced the National Children\u2019s Hospital Ireland project<\/a>\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is evidenced by its continued failure to meet its planned progress toward completing the project, resulting in lower-than-expected valuations and certified payments. The NPHDB welcomes the deployment of additional experienced professionals from BAM UK and Ireland in November and December 2025 to support the work,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Bam said in a statement that the hospital project <\/a>was \u201cmore than adequately resourced for the current phase of works, with staffing levels aligned to \u2013 and in excess of \u2013 the requirements of the programme at this stage of completion, commissioning and handover. <\/p>\n

\u201cMany of the staff on site at this late stage of completion are now highly specialist staff addressing specific areas of final stage commissioning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company said that the new national children\u2019s hospital <\/a>was an exceptionally complex healthcare facility and was now in the final stages of commissioning and de-snagging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Additional payments of more than \u20ac60 million have been determined to be due to Bam, the main contractor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[275],"tags":[22644,18,135,475,474,19,17],"class_list":["post-337205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-bam","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116069554279223202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}