# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 3 August, 2021
# Building Blocks
"We still have a number of questions about the hospital," the chair of the Public Accounts Committee has said. The Project Managers say that the NCH is designed to last twice as long as the average national hospital, and costs more as a result
# national-childrens-hospital - Tuesday 13 July, 2021
# Bam
# Bam
The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board is spending €15 million fighting the claims.
# 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.
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