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National Children’s Hospital
Children’s hospital and building contractor agree plan to complete project by June
New national children's hospital was due to be completed in 2020 but has been beset by cost over-runs, delays and a long-running dispute with contractor BAM
Irish health system report card: a year of criticisms, concerns and innovations
From rows about staffing, waiting lists and cost overruns to resignations of senior staff, heathcare was never far from the news headlines in 2024
Restoration of Notre Dame shows hard things can be achieved if we’re not afraid to be ambitious
We must stop mistaking a lack of ambition in planning and building for caution and rule-following
Ireland surfed the wave of globalisation as long as we could. Here’s what we should do next
Donald Trump certainly poses a threat to the Irish economy but there is much the State can do to safeguard our economic welfare
Subsidiary of main National Children’s Hospital contractor to secure major State building project
Analysis by State determines benefits ‘clearly outweigh’ costs of Technological University buildings planned for Galway and Letterkenny, Carlow and Waterford, and Shannon
BAM begins High Court proceedings against board of national children’s hospital
Dispute arises from claim made by builders for additional payments from facility’s development board for work on project
Pipeline of new hospital development projects not sufficiently strong, Varadkar says
Former taoiseach and minister for health says about 500 additional beds need to be provided annually to keep up with population growth
Lucy Nugent has been appointed new chief executive of Children’s Health Ireland
Appointment follows two senior resignations at CHI as it prepares for completion of new national children’s hospital next year
Two most senior officials at Children’s Health Ireland quit posts
Resignations come at a critical time for organisation, which is preparing for the completion of the new national children’s hospital
Ireland’s corporate tax boom makes the front page of the Wall Street Journal
Seen & Heard: Party manifesto funding ‘holes’; Daft.ie nears €300m sale; Buyer for Bord na Móna recycling operation
Sinn Féin denies planned ‘piggy bank heist’ as major parties clash over spending
Paschal Donohoe accuses party of ‘raid’ – but Pearse Doherty says party would add more money to future funds
Half a million for a 33-page report on MetroLink? It may prove cheap at the price
Why spending €514,000 for a 33-page report on MetroLink may prove good value for taxpayers
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
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