Harris issued the apology in the Dáil on Tuesday. Minister for Health Simon Harris has apologised for his role in the recent National Children’s Hospital scandal. It recently emerged that Harris knew the National Children’s Hospital was running over budget as early as August 2018. He made a statement in the Dáil on Tuesday, where he took […]

7 years ago

The memo shows that Harris knew about cost overruns from the National Children’s Hospital two months before last year’s Budget. Minister for Health Simon Harris has tonight released the memo from last August that flagged the cost overruns at the National Children’s Hospital. The memo showed that Harris was aware that the cost of the construction […]

7 years ago

Can you put a price on your child’s health? Of course not, it’s priceless. You’d pay any amount of money in the world in order to keep your child healthy, and provide them with the best of care. No figure would be too high. Sorry, hang on. Did somebody just say €1.7 billion? Okay, well. […]

7 years ago

Leo Varadkar has confirmed the news that the planned National Children’s Hospital will cost the government €1.433 billion. The hospital, which is set to be built on the site of St James’ Hospital in Dublin, was originally supposed to cost €650 million, and was put closer to €1 billion just six weeks ago. According to Taoiseach […]

7 years ago

A petition to relocate the National Children’s Hospital immediately has reached almost 50,000 signatures as of May 3. The group, called Connolly For Kids Hospital, says that its main concern is ‘improving clinical outcomes for children’ and that to share a campus with St. James’ hospital (a plan which was granted permission five days ago) […]

10 years ago

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12 years ago