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National Children’s Hospital
No substitute for experience when it comes to delivering infrastructure
Any Department of Infrastructure will need a long time to get up to speed as happened when department responsibility for climate was switched
PAC members ‘furious’ after bid to quiz children’s hospital organisations before election is unsuccessful
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy says refusal of bodies to appear before committee was ‘unacceptable’
PAC wants children’s hospital organisations to appear at final meeting before election
Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board say they can attend at a future date but not this week
Snapshot analysis: Budget and State spending take focus away from social issues
Respondents reveal a greater concentration on the value for money of Government expenditure than on topics such as the housing shortage and immigration
Children’s hospital development board spent €672,000 on public relations services
Spending over less than three years came during period where project has been hit by successive delays and spiralling cost overruns
Kathleen Lynn Hospital, Dolores O’Riordan Park and Catherine Corless Place: Readers on how we should honour Irish women
We asked Irish Times readers if there were any streets, buildings, places or structures in Ireland that they thought should be named, or renamed, after women
Children’s hospital row: ‘Naive’ to think issues around delays are ‘sorted’, says Stephen Donnelly
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board says it could not express confidence in most recent revised substantial completion date
Minister for Health still ‘fully expects’ State to take ownership of children’s hospital next year
Stephen Donnelly says commissioning of facility accelerated and staff could move in ‘maybe before final completion date’
Corporation tax receipts forecast to swell to €37bn a year by 2030
Budget 2025: Forecast for corporation tax made in annual economic and fiscal outlook, published by Department of Finance
Government has a windfall of cash but no coherent sense of how to spend it
We have a windfall – but the golden apples seem to have fallen on our heads. Our governing culture has lost its great get-out clause: ‘If only we had the money…'
The Government is blinded by rich man syndrome
What’s a copper-roofed security hut or a gold-plated bike shed? Symbols of a political class which is increasingly out of touch
National children’s hospital site picketed by Unite members in travel-allowances dispute
Union says action is to highlight wider ongoing dispute rather than to significantly disrupt work on NCH site
National children’s hospital ‘car crash’ set to be repeated with maternity hospital, Dáil told
Aontú leader claims building, fit-out tender as ‘half-baked’ as contract for children’s hospital and that Government is ‘incinerating taxpayers’ money’
National children’s hospital project is a ‘hostage’, says body overseeing long-delayed development
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board said it could not give ‘assurances’ on June 2025 completion date
National children’s hospital: Board tells politicians project is a ‘hostage’ in the €2.2bn controversy
National Paediatric Hospital Development Board said it could not give ‘assurance’ on June 2025 completion date
National children’s hospital: ‘Fiasco’ is rooted in Government incompetence, Sinn Féin leader tells Dáil
No rooms finished in line with required standards, TDs to be told at committee on Wednesday
Key children’s hospital positions not filled permanently as opening date looms
Construction of hospital expected to be completed this year with first patients treated from summer 2025
National children’s hospital: No children will be treated in new facility for at least 18 months, expert says
Costs have escalated because design was not complete when it went to tender, DCU professor says
National Children’s Hospital timeline
News that half operating theatres in National Children’s Hospital may need remediation work after main contractor BAM was told to stop works there latest twist in a saga stretching back 30 years
Fears target dates for construction and opening of new children’s hospital will be missed
Dáil spending watchdog PAC to query if there will be penalties imposed for late delivery of updated completion plan by main contractor
Michael O’Keeffe obituary: Pioneering paediatric eye surgeon saved sight of many
Consultant ophthalmologist was a staunch advocate for patients and used his position to seek improvements in services
New children’s hospital to break fresh ground in digital healthcare
A key part of the new children’s hospital will be digital technology, with everything from patient records to the systems controlling the hospital building being digitalised
A ‘mistake’ to estimate final cost of children’s hospital, Taoiseach says
Sinn Féin leader hits out at ‘debacle’ of ballooning costs and asks final price for building that started six years ago
How much will the national children’s hospital cost? That’s the €2bn (plus) question
Inside Politics: Coalition braced for potentially significant increases in the budget for the national children’s hospital
Pretax profits at engineering group Mercury rise by 26%
Company is responsible for lighting at the National Children’s Hospital
Part of children’s hospital facade replaced over ‘non-compliant’ insulation
Building board says issue has been resolved and building is fire and building-regulation compliant
Minutes of January board meeting note ‘non-compliant’ cladding in children’s hospital
‘Oversight’ of non-publication of 2022 minutes of NPHDB meetings rectified after Irish Times query
Final cost of National Children’s Hospital to exceed €1.43bn, development board says
Expenditure on the project topped €1 billion by the end of August
National Children’s Hospital builder BAM Ireland reports a return to growth and profits
Revenues at the firm surged by more than one-third in 2021, accounts show
Three-quarters of children’s hospital construction budget is spent as costs top €1bn
Fears construction costs of national children’s hospital may rise due to pandemic, inflation and Brexit
National Children’s Hospital costs set to soar further over budget
Inflationary factors likely to exceed key threshold in BAM contract and expose State to more costs
Arson attacks at new national children’s hospital site are causing ‘grave concern’
Cameras installed in bid to counteract attacks, which are becoming more frequent
Cost of the national children’s hospital could rise to more than €2bn
War in Ukraine, Brexit, the pandemic and disruption to the global supply chain could all be factors in pushing up costs
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