Health
Analysis: Red alert for the coalition as cost of children’s hospital hits the headlines again
Further delays and overruns to the landmark project will cause difficulty for the coalition and rob them of the glory on its eventual opening day
It is always a danger sign for the government when the cost of the National Children’s Hospital (NCH) is back in the headlines.
The doubling of its price tag to €1.7 billion was a grievous wound to the reputation of the previous Fine Gael-led minority government.
It is the biggest single health infrastructure project in the history of the state and it is now 85 per cent complete on the St James’s Hospital campus in ...
