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
Flippin’ ‘learnings’, they turn up like a bad penny whenever another billion is flushed down the pan
When under attack for the Children’s Hospital fiasco, Paschal Donohoe takes flak for Simon Harris - who is in New York - and pulls the word ‘learnings’ from the first aid box
Children’s hospital, Metrolink and bike shed are all symptoms of a deep governmental malaise
Like Britain, we suffer from advanced administrative sclerosis, but we’re in complete denial
Donnelly criticises Children’s Health Ireland board over delays in seeking new chief
Failure to set substantial completion date for new national children’s hospital a significant risk to commissioning programme for the project, CHI chairman says
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
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Irish leaders attend UN assembly while national children’s hospital faces further delays
Children’s hospital completion date now June 2025, TDs to be told
Board overseeing €2.2 billion project says contractors will ‘not be given another cent’ as Taoiseach warns of penalties
Electrician walked off NCH site after pay was docked following bereavement leave, WRC told
Worker said he received a payslip and discovered that his hourly rate of pay had been reduced by €7 an hour
National children’s hospital to seek damages from construction firm BAM over further delays
Latest development in row over the construction of new children’s hospital, which has been hit by successive delays and spiralling cost over-runs
If you laughed at the one about the Leinster House bike shelter, you’ll love the one about the loo rolls
Sometimes, when a problem is complex and protracted, a simple example of hubristic extravagance can become the emblem of all that is wrong
Children’s hospital: We are at the stage where we just want the builders out of our life
National children’s hospital debacle shows State must avoid mismanaging mega-projects
Concerns over construction quality and completion date of national children’s hospital flagged in report
Spokesperson for contractors BAM says it is ‘fully confident in the quality of the construction work for this world-class hospital’
Big problems cannot be magicked away by the Taoiseach’s emphatic statements
Simon Harris has moved ahead of his problems without necessarily confronting them. Now he’s in a race against time
New national children’s hospital board set to sanction project’s builders, correspondence shows
‘Continued failure by BAM’ to deliver a compliant programme of works for facility, Public Accounts Committee told
State funding decision for delayed Cork Events Centre to be made in coming weeks, says McGrath
Multipurpose 6,000-capacity venue to host concerts and conferences planned for site close to South Gate Bridge in city
Building firm goes to court in fresh row over children’s hospital
BAM to initiate High Court action over extra €107m as conciliator extends formal completion date by more than a year
PAC chairman: close public contract ‘loopholes’ to reduce risk to taxpayer money
‘Major overhaul’ needed in how public bodies and government are signing off on contracts, says Brian Stanley
BAM, criticised for delays in national children’s hospital, building €100m cross-Border bridge
Taoiseach at ceremony marking breaking of ground on Narrow Water Bridge linking Omeath and Warrenpoint
Children’s hospital costs: Failure to inform official appearing at PAC about extra €107m ‘undermines public confidence’
Labour Party TD Alan Kelly said the move was ‘completely undermining of the Public Accounts Committee
Minister briefed on extra €107m payment to firm building children’s hospital but official not told before PAC appearance
Details of largest additional payment to BAM over delays on State side of project not explained to committee when it heard from development board on Thursday
Firm building national children’s hospital set to get extra €107m in dispute resolution
Conciliator recently proposed sum should be paid to BAM after firm sought further payments for project delays until last year
National children’s hospital development stretches back 13 years
Development marked by missed deadlines and ballooning costs
The Irish Times view on the National Children’s Hospital: another chapter in the never-ending saga
With massive State investment planned over the next few years in a range of areas, it is vital that lessons are learned and applied in future big projects
National Children’s Hospital: New ‘substantial completion’ date now February 2025, TDs told
Hospital will not be able to admit patients until August 2025 at the earliest, public spending watchdog hears
Delivery of new national children’s hospital set to be further delayed
The project has been beset by delays and spiralling costs but it was expected that ‘substantial completion’ of the hospital would happen by October 29th
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
How did China build a children’s hospital six times cheaper than Ireland in just three years?
Baoding’s hospital and the vast Xiong’an model city 50km away show the virtues of design, planning and state ownership of land
Government wants new children’s hospital to be open next year
Construction has begun on facility to accommodate families of patients at the new hospital
Plans for Crumlin children’s hospital
Why the children’s hospital in Crumlin should not be decommissioned
The tax windfall has paid for the Children’s Hospital - but will it last long enough to pay for Dublin’s metro?
Ireland needs to invest massively – in housing, infrastructure, public transport, climate change. But as the public finances tighten this will require better delivery and tough decisions
The children’s hospital project has been both meticulously planned and overly rushed
The problem isn’t the overrun - it is that the cost was grossly underestimated and all the information the market needed to squeeze the Government was made public
Children’s hospital now a sunken political cost
Public numbed to escalating costs of decades-long saga from which Coalition will glean little credit
PAC wants to recall board members of children’s hospital over new estimate
Cost of building the hospital has increased by €512 million, to €2.24 billion, Stephen Donnelly tells Cabinet colleagues
Will its 380 beds be enough when children’s hospital finally opens at stratospheric cost?
Facility to be among the most expensive of its kind worldwide, when Switzerland has built larger hospital in Berne for €700m
National Children’s Hospital cost has risen to more than €2.2bn, Donnelly confirms
Varadkar says Government will not be putting any more funding towards the project with €2.2bn being its ‘maximum allocation’
Attempts to resuscitate toddler after paddling pool incident heard at inquest
Coroner records open verdict on 22-month-old boy found unresponsive in less than 10cm of water
Stephen Donnelly casts doubt on National Children’s Hospital completion date
Minister for Health also suggested ‘supplementary budget’ could be needed by the health service this year
Department of Health sought €60,000 fee for children’s hospital chairwoman
Department said chairperson’s time commitment had almost trebled
Before Metrolink juggernaut becomes a money pit, let’s look at alternatives
What is it about the Irish State that causes massive delays and overspends on nearly every big project?
A quiet revolution in treating small children with serious heart disease
Children from the North account for up to 20 per cent of heart interventions performed in Crumlin’s children’s hospital in Dublin
Donnelly refuses to give commitment that national children’s hospital will be open in 2025
Minister for Health says current handover date of October 2024 is being reviewed
National children’s hospital timeline: The major events in a long-running construction saga
Key events so far in the long-running saga that has become the construction of our hospital
National children’s hospital may not receive patients until 2026, PAC hears
Construction firm BAM will need ‘significant improvement’ to meet October 2024 completion date, while final bill could exceed €2bn
Further delay on completion date for National Children’s Hospital
Project delivery team to appear before Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee in attempt to explain cost overruns and delays
National children’s hospital board complained of ‘fragmented’ work on Dublin site
Dáil due to get new ‘guidance’ this week on timeframe for completing building
BAM results show children’s hospital developer had profitable 2022
Court dispute in June heard contractor is in dispute over claims valued at hundreds of millions of euro
Galway hospital commissions review of head injuries to newborn babies during delivery
UHG investigating cases of bleeding under skin of baby’s head, associated with difficult births
National children’s hospital legal bill nears €2m amid disputes
New details around legal costs and disputes released to Soc Dems TD Catherine Murphy
Expert in contentious construction disputes put on national children’s hospital board
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has announced a number of appointments and reappointments to the board
It takes 10 years to build a road in Ireland, 20 for a rail line, 30 for a MetroLink. What are we doing wrong?
Cliff Taylor: Why do big infrastructure projects always take so long in Ireland?
Opposition parties call on Coalition to reveal new finish date for children’s hospital
Government figures remain tight-lipped as board mulls over new programme of work for national children’s hospital
Board given new date for children’s hospital completion - but will not reveal it for months
A spokeswoman for the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board confirmed that BAM have now sent a new programme of works
New children’s hospital board says design changes not to blame for costly delays
Documents also reveal that more than 300 doors in the hospital may have to be replaced or demolished
Who are Kroll, the investigators brought in to run rule over National Children’s Hospital?
Corporate-intelligence firm with global reach regularly employed by multinationals and governments
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