The price of the new National Children's Hospital is likely to increase again.
So that would be beyond the current €1.4 billion price tag.
The new hospital's development board says it can't provide a forecast of how much more the project will likely cost taxpayers.
However, the builders have submitted 900 claims for extra money.
Those Claims Will Be Scrutinised
CEO of the Hospital Development Board David Gunning says teams will scrutinise all of those claims:
"All of the costs that we incur are subject to a great deal of scrutiny."
"We will not, in any sense, allow the costs to get out of control."
"It's important to mitigate [them]."
"The biggest mitigation we can do currently is to get the project completed as soon as possible."
