# national-childrens-hospital - Friday 31 January, 2020
We looked at more of the claims made during last night’s last leaders debate.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 16 January, 2020
The €1.73 billion project has almost three years of construction-time left.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 5 December, 2019
The Public Accounts Committee met in the Oireachtas today.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 27 November, 2019
The fact some measures of the project remain uncosted is ‘laughable’ says Labour’s Alan Kelly.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Saturday 2 November, 2019
One local councillor says local residents feel “under siege” from the constant construction work near their homes.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 10 September, 2019
The project has been mired in controversy over spiralling costs.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Friday 6 September, 2019
The majority of the money will go to the fund, while €429,000 is to be paid to the National Children’s Hospital.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Monday 2 September, 2019
Leo Varadkar insisted some politicians had been “scaremongering” over the children’s hospital overspend.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Monday 15 July, 2019
The Department of Health has said the opening hours of the new unit have not yet been finalised.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
The hospital board will appear before an Oireachtas committee today.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 23 May, 2019
It emerged this month that the facility will be built to honour a 2008 contract with consultants.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 16 May, 2019
The firm was found to have ‘high level’ input into a decision to continue with constructing the project last year.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 20 March, 2019
John Pollock is the second senior figure to leave the project in as many months.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Monday 18 March, 2019
“The day of just two will do is no longer acceptable,” Dr Michael Harty, chair of the Oireachtas Health Committee, told TheJournal.ie.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 7 March, 2019
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane said there is a level of contempt being shown to Oireachtas committees.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 28 February, 2019
Speaking about Brexit, the Taoiseach also said that he’s “not surprised” that he’s the “boogeyman” of the British media.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 21 February, 2019
Calls have been made by a number of committees for Watt to appear before them to outline DEPR’s role in the children’s hospital project.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 20 February, 2019
The Sinn Féin motion was tabled in response to the controversy surrounding the increasing costs of constructing the National Children’s Hospital.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Saturday 16 February, 2019
‘As we cry in frustration over the recurring ineptitude of the state to deliver decent public healthcare service for citizens’ Maebh Ní Fhallúin examines how we got here.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Friday 15 February, 2019
The company also said it did not benefit inappropriately from the tender process.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
Mick Wallace told the Dáil the ultimate cost of the hospital could be in excess of €2.2 billion.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
Work is underway to ensure the public procurement process is more robust, particularly for large-scale projects.
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An audit of departmental spending has been undertaken with savings to come from eight departments.
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Harris is facing a motion of no confidence from Sinn Féin next week.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Sunday 10 February, 2019
Fianna Fáil has said it won’t support a potential no-confidence motion in the health minister.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Saturday 9 February, 2019
The controversy over the costs of the project is just the latest in a series of problems to affect the project
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# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 7 February, 2019
Documents show Harris was informed in August that the budget for the hospital could overrun by €391 million.
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Pressure has been mounting on government all week about who knew what when about the hospital costs.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 6 February, 2019
Harris maintained his claim that he was not aware of the project’s rising costs until August 2018.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 5 February, 2019
Paschal Donohoe admitted it would have been ‘helpful’ to have been informed of the cost overruns as it developed.
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Pressure is mounting on the Department of Public Expenditure about its role in project oversight.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Monday 4 February, 2019
Minister for Finance Donohoe, told Morning Ireland that the escalating costs of the children’s hospital should have been known earlier.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Sunday 3 February, 2019
Varadkar said the terms of reference of the review would be changed.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Saturday 2 February, 2019
Tom Costello has been involved with the project for six years.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Friday 1 February, 2019
A review into the rising costs of the new children’s hospital will not assign any blame to individuals.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 31 January, 2019
The Secretary General of the HSE is unable to confirm that the cost will be below €2 billion
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# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 22 January, 2019
The hospital will cost €1.4 billion – that’s €450 million higher than the figure of €983 million approved by government in 2017.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 16 January, 2019
The final project cost is €1.4 billion – €450 million higher than the 2017 figure.
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# national-childrens-hospital - Monday 24 December, 2018
It’s emerged the budget for the new hospital may cost more than €1.433 billion.
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'I'm happy for the project to continue': Simon Harris rules out re-tendering children's hospital
The Minister was responding to a statement by BAM that suggested it would pull out of the contract if the Government wanted.
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