Health Minister unable to give completion date for Children’s Hospital
The completion date has been pushed back for the 18th time Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeil has not yet provided a completion date for the National Children’s Hospital this week, stating it would be opened when it is “safe [and] clinically appropriate,” according to Extra.ie. The completion date for the controversial construction project has been […]
3 months ago
Outrage after Government approves €500 million for Children’s Hospital
The new children’s hospital likely won’t open until 2025 There has been major backlash after the Government approved an additional €500 million for the new Children’s Hospital. The project has been hit with delay after delay and has exceeded its original budget. Yesterday, the Government approved further funding for the project, bringing the total to […]
2 years ago
Jess Redden says baby boy is doing well after 7 day hospitalisation
We’re so glad little Bobby is doing okay. Jess Redden has issued an update after her little boy Bobby was hospitalised. The fitness influencer confessed that she got the fright of her life after they rushed her son to hospital in Crumlin, but thankfully her little boy is doing well. The mum shared an update […]
3 years ago
New Children’s Hospital likely won’t open until 2030
The National Children’s Hospital is not set to be open to patients until 2030 at the earliest, a former leading consultant has said. The State has been battling with developers from BAM over 2,000 claims worth more than €700million and it is believed that the they have now repeatedly pushed back the completion until May […]
3 years ago
Just 27 of 3,000 rooms currently completed at new Children’s Hospital
Only 27 of the 3,000 rooms at the National Children’s Hospital have been completed. Back in 2015, construction costs for the National Children’s Hospital (NCH) were estimated to come in at around €600 million. On Tuesday, eight years and no completed hospital later, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the current budget was still at €1.433 billion […]
3 years ago
‘Almost half’ of theatres at new children’s hospital need work
Almost half of the operating theatres in the new children’s hospital could need remedial work, according to documents seen by RTÉ News. Contractors at the hospital site were ordered to stop work on the ceilings of 11 operating theatres last month and the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board has said that they are yet to […]
3 years ago