National Children’s Hospital
Costs for the new hospital hit €2.2 billion earlier this year.
This is not an especially radical proposal – outside of the constitutional change necessary to enact it – but it would, I feel, make an enormous difference to the attitude to public money that is too often pervasive across Ireland’s public sector.
And the political class, as a whole, lacks any interest in holding the administrative state to account.
“High time Donnelly steps up, offers transparency, and takes corrective action.”
Billions are being spent in the hope of providing future care while in the current world, the waiting list for kids with Scoliosis is a scandalous five years.
Independent TD, Carol Nolan, has asked the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, to investigate revelations that the same insulation used in tower block in Grenfell is to be used in the construction of the new National Children’s Hospital. The Deputy for Laois Offaly said she had submitted a number of questions to the office of […]
An Oireachtas committee has heard that the cost of large projects could rise by up to 40% due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Minister for Health Simon Harris has only met with the board of the controversial Children’s Hospital twice in three years, it has been revealed.
The worker, who did not wish to be named because of fears for his job, said “I’ve seen and heard all about it (cocaine) from the moment we started work…”
The accident is thought to have taken place this morning at the Children’s Hospital construction site beside St. James’s Hospital, Dublin.