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AN EXTRA €40m in funding has been signed off by Cabinet today towards to development of the new Children’s Hospital.
This will bring the total approved capital budget for the project to €1.473bn.
The hospital is now 92% complete according to the development board, with the first patients expected to be admitted by summer 2025 at the earliest.
Over two years ago, in November 2021 the Government was advised that the new hospital could not be completed within the original sanctioned budget and would cost than initially budgeted.
A memo brought to Cabinet by Health Minister Stephen Donnelly today requested Government approval for an increase to the previous sanctioned capital budget of €1.433bn to ensure the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) and the project can continue and are not in breach of public financial procedures.
This was approved by Cabinet.
The overall cost of the project has risen from an estimated €800 million in 2014, to €983 million in 2017, to €1.4 billion as of December 2019.
The original completion date in the tender document was August 2022.
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Why don’t they just hand over a blank cheque
@mainmsam: They have
@mainmsam: It’s sickening (pun intended). It’s our money they are wasting, remember that, they won’t build houses but they’ll roll over and get ripped off by a private company without hesitation because none of them know how to negotiate despite the fortune they spend on PR.
And this the crowd that are going to build all the houses needed 5 offshore wind farms upgrade the grid and of course the most expensive hospital in the world that’s in the wrong place but of course the shinners will screw the economy
@John Reynolds: You last sentence is true…..remember,things can always get worse.
@John Terry: Did you switch back to far right John Terry because your Harry Cockbiscuit account keeps getting owned?
I’d love to have a go at being a brain surgeon and collecting the massive salary that would go with that job. Unfortunately I have no qualifications or experience that might get me that role. How is it then that people with no clue whatsoever can end up in positions where the only requirement seems to be spoofing your way from one debacle to the next .
@Jp Cleary: comment of the day!
@Jp Cleary: It’s not ineptness or stupidity or even laziness, it’s corruption, a very different animal. Taxpayers money is used to grease the wheels of favours, back-handers and cronyism. This country has a long history of state projects being used as a mechanism for extracting state funds from their intended purpose. It suits the crooks when we think the cause is ineptness because they can get away with that, and because, if you think that is the cause, you will never fix it.
Who signed off on the original contract?? I sincerely hope they are never allowed next nor near another project because they subjected us to the worst deal ever. BAM m7dt have been 7nable to contain themselves as they laugh all the way to the bank courtesy of the irish taxpayer.
@karen delaney:
Exactly.
Have BAM milked the situation? Of course they have but authorised the original contract???
After the fiasco of trying to build it at the Maher they rushed through the plan for St James.
We are all paying for that.
@karen delaney: The rules are the rules and cheapest bidder wins no matter who they are or their track record. I dont think past records count for much in Ireland. Just look at the way some of our past governments, politicians and some business people behaved and we still fawn over them.
BAM again looking for more money concerning the Event Centre in Cork City…€57 million of taxpayers money has already gone into this farce. Cork City Council has stated work is due to begin in 2024…No mention of how much more of taxpayers money will be given to BAM….Turning of sod in 2016…Sweet Jesus.
@Donal Desmond: they still won’t tell us how much it cost the tax payer for the tralee bypass or the castle island bypass that BAM built.
When it is going to end, another shambles by this so-called government, absolutely clueless.
€40m that will become €400m
That should cover the cost of the plates and cups.
@Stephen Hickey: that’s a load of crockery
@Stephen Hickey: and slippers. Screw the middle income taxpayer
The man with a degree in mechanical engineering and the biggest brass neck of all our politicians asleep at the wheel. What a man to have as minister for health..
A hospital will be needed for all the adults sickened by this fiasco
Civil servants to blame for this one.
A total shambles as usual. Not to mention that there is very little paediatric specialty anywhere in the country apart from Dublin. The strain put on families with sick children around the country who have to travel for care is ridiculous… not to mention waiting times for precious appointments.
They did!
That’ll be gone by lunch time Thursday and BAM will be back for more, and given it! #fiannagaelsway
Great bunch of lads
The Enda Kenny hospital will be the best in the world all thanks to the mighty FG
If this riles up the whingers, then it’s money well spent lol
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