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
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