# simon-harris - Sunday 17 March, 2019
A number of people wrote to Leo Varadkar during last month’s strike.
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# simon-harris - Tuesday 12 March, 2019
Minister for Health Simon Harris has published a new plan aimed at reducing waiting times for patients.
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# simon-harris - Monday 4 March, 2019
The white powder in the envelope addressed to the Health Minister was confirmed to be non-hazardous.
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Technicians from the Defence Forces have confirmed that the powder was non-hazardous
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The group will examine the extent to which cost is a barrier to accessing reliable methods of contraception in Ireland.
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# simon-harris - Thursday 28 February, 2019
The board’s work will take a minimum of two years to complete.
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# simon-harris - 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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The disease claims the lives of more than 300,000 women every year.
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# simon-harris - Tuesday 19 February, 2019
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Fianna Fáil TDs have reportedly been urged by the party whip to attend the vote tomorrow evening.
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“He’s given impression that this is a priority for him,” the Independent Clare TD said.
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Rural service provision for abortions is currently sparse, the groups say, with no GPs signed up to the service in some counties.
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# simon-harris - Sunday 17 February, 2019
Around 10 people demonstrated at the scene this afternoon.
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People with outside expertise will sit on the new group, with a chairperson to be appointed shortly.
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# simon-harris - Saturday 16 February, 2019
# simon-harris - 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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Health Minister Simon Harris promised it would be introduced in September last year. This was then pushed out to January 2019.
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The new children’s hospital is currently estimated to cost €1.7 billion.
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# simon-harris - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
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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# simon-harris - Monday 11 February, 2019
A group of protesters gathered outside Harris’ home in Co Wicklow yesterday afternoon.
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Harris will apologise for misleading the Dáil this week.
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# simon-harris - Sunday 10 February, 2019
The anti-government protesters left the scene peacefully after gardaí arrived.
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Fianna Fáil has said it won’t support a potential no-confidence motion in the health minister.
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# simon-harris - Saturday 9 February, 2019
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About 37,000 INMO members are engaging in strike action over pay and staffing levels.
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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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The latest figures show there was an increase of nearly 3,000 on the year previous.
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# simon-harris - Friday 8 February, 2019
Harris is being criticised for not briefing members of Cabinet in August, when he was first informed of possible increased costs.
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# simon-harris - 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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Last month, it was reported that the Rotunda would not provide abortions for women at more than 11 weeks’ gestation.
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# simon-harris - Wednesday 6 February, 2019
The health minister said the idea that people would set up a ‘fake’ website is ‘despicable’.
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Harris maintained his claim that he was not aware of the project’s rising costs until August 2018.
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Women in Northern Ireland can access abortion services here, but it will cost them €450, the Dáil was told yesterday.
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# simon-harris - Tuesday 5 February, 2019
Pressure is mounting on the Department of Public Expenditure about its role in project oversight.
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# simon-harris - 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.
INMO and PNA members will take part in further industrial action this week.
The HSE is probing claims that a woman was phoned and harassed by a man who had obtained her personal information.
# simon-harris - Saturday 2 February, 2019
Tom Costello has been involved with the project for six years.
It could be a number of years before these ‘counsellors’ are outlawed.
# simon-harris - 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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'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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