At 5.40 pm on January 8, 2019, on receipt of an instruction to begin the second phase of  construction at the National Children’s Hospital, a director of Bam, the main contractor, replied “Thank you, a significant letter in the history of the State!” It had taken years of negotiations, planning, design, and engineering to get to this point. Underground works had been completed and now building proper on the paediatric hospital would bring to fruition the largest capital investment in health infrastructure ever undertaken in Ireland. No spoilers in saying that is not how it panned out. Works stalled and…

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