The new maternity hospital will ­relocate facilities from its cramped and outdated building in Holles Street in Dublin city to the St Vincent’s ­Hospital campus in Dublin 4

One of the first babies born in 2025 arrived at just 19 seconds past midnight to parents Eve Colley and Eric Tyrell in the National Maternity Hospital

It was claimed the child suffered suffered an injury to her shoulder and arm during her birth in 2014

The National Maternity Hospital had already been given an estimated cost of more than €340,000 for the work

It said the expected wait time for replacement parts was in the order of four months during which the day-to-day running of the hospital would have been compromised.