# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 8 April, 2021
# Construction
# Construction
BAM is the primary contractor building the new children’s hospital in Dublin.
# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 9 February, 2021
# PAC
# PAC
Six of the claims are more than €40 million, the committee was told.
# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 18 November, 2020
# Bam
# Bam
The completion date for the project is also being pushed back further.
# national-childrens-hospital - Friday 10 July, 2020
# Controversy
# Controversy
Taoiseach Micheal Martin appealed to the contractor and those working on building the hospital to get back on site.
# Finance Minister
# Finance Minister
BAM released a statement saying that it was excluded from the government’s Covid-19 ex-gratia payments, which it called “unfair”.
# national-childrens-hospital - Friday 22 May, 2020
# Construction
# Construction
Tom Parlon made the claim on Tuesday to the Oireachtas Special Committee on Covid-19 Response.
# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 19 May, 2020
# CIF
# CIF
Labour TD Duncan Smith said such an increase would be “astronomical”.
# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 2 April, 2020
# High Court
# High Court
The dispute relates around the validity of a contract to commence Phase B of construction of the Children’s Hospital without a design.
# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 31 March, 2020
# Construction
# Construction
The contractors had been criticised for continuing construction at the site after new government guidelines.
# national-childrens-hospital - Friday 31 January, 2020
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
We looked at more of the claims made during last night’s last leaders debate.
# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 16 January, 2020
The €1.73 billion project has almost three years of construction-time left.
# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 5 December, 2019
# Nch
# Nch
The Public Accounts Committee met in the Oireachtas today.
# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 27 November, 2019
# Cost Overruns
# Cost Overruns
The fact some measures of the project remain uncosted is ‘laughable’ says Labour’s Alan Kelly.
# national-childrens-hospital - Saturday 2 November, 2019
# Complaints
# Complaints
One local councillor says local residents feel “under siege” from the constant construction work near their homes.
# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 10 September, 2019
# Complex Build
# Complex Build
The project has been mired in controversy over spiralling costs.
# national-childrens-hospital - Friday 6 September, 2019
# Caranua
# Caranua
The majority of the money will go to the fund, while €429,000 is to be paid to the National Children’s Hospital.
# national-childrens-hospital - Monday 2 September, 2019
# Children's Hospital
# Children's Hospital
Leo Varadkar insisted some politicians had been “scaremongering” over the children’s hospital overspend.
# national-childrens-hospital - Monday 15 July, 2019
# Emergency Care
# Emergency Care
The Department of Health has said the opening hours of the new unit have not yet been finalised.
# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 12 June, 2019
# Progress Update
# Progress Update
The hospital board will appear before an Oireachtas committee today.
# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 23 May, 2019
# Sláintecare
# Sláintecare
It emerged this month that the facility will be built to honour a 2008 contract with consultants.
# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 16 May, 2019
# PAC
# PAC
The firm was found to have ‘high level’ input into a decision to continue with constructing the project last year.
# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 20 March, 2019
# Opportune Point
# Opportune Point
John Pollock is the second senior figure to leave the project in as many months.
# national-childrens-hospital - Monday 18 March, 2019
# Independent TD
# Independent TD
“The day of just two will do is no longer acceptable,” Dr Michael Harty, chair of the Oireachtas Health Committee, told TheJournal.ie.
# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 7 March, 2019
# Children's Hospital
# Children's Hospital
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane said there is a level of contempt being shown to Oireachtas committees.
# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 28 February, 2019
# Newstalk
# Newstalk
Speaking about Brexit, the Taoiseach also said that he’s “not surprised” that he’s the “boogeyman” of the British media.
# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 21 February, 2019
# Children's Hospital
# Children's Hospital
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.
# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 20 February, 2019
# Spiralling Costs
# Spiralling Costs
The Sinn Féin motion was tabled in response to the controversy surrounding the increasing costs of constructing the National Children’s Hospital.
# national-childrens-hospital - Saturday 16 February, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
‘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.
# Onwards And Upwards
# Onwards And Upwards
The Minister was responding to a statement by BAM that suggested it would pull out of the contract if the Government wanted.
# national-childrens-hospital - Friday 15 February, 2019
# St James's
# St James's
The company also said it did not benefit inappropriately from the tender process.
# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
# National Children's Hospital
# National Children's Hospital
Mick Wallace told the Dáil the ultimate cost of the hospital could be in excess of €2.2 billion.
# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 12 February, 2019
# Low Balling
# Low Balling
Work is underway to ensure the public procurement process is more robust, particularly for large-scale projects.
# On The Backburner
# On The Backburner
An audit of departmental spending has been undertaken with savings to come from eight departments.
# Children's Hospital
# Children's Hospital
Harris is facing a motion of no confidence from Sinn Féin next week.
# national-childrens-hospital - Sunday 10 February, 2019
# Dáil Record
# Dáil Record
Fianna Fáil has said it won’t support a potential no-confidence motion in the health minister.
# national-childrens-hospital - Saturday 9 February, 2019
# Explainer
# Explainer
The controversy over the costs of the project is just the latest in a series of problems to affect the project
# national-childrens-hospital - Thursday 7 February, 2019
# New Documents
# New Documents
Documents show Harris was informed in August that the budget for the hospital could overrun by €391 million.
# Nch
# Nch
Pressure has been mounting on government all week about who knew what when about the hospital costs.
# national-childrens-hospital - Wednesday 6 February, 2019
# National Children's Hospital
# National Children's Hospital
Harris maintained his claim that he was not aware of the project’s rising costs until August 2018.
# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 5 February, 2019
# Timeline
# Timeline
Paschal Donohoe admitted it would have been ‘helpful’ to have been informed of the cost overruns as it developed.
A couple of afternoon showers
Max: 13 °C
Min: 4 °C
Mostly cloudy with a couple of showers
Max: 12 °C
Min: 6 °C
