Fianna Fáil has called for clarity after reports that a hospital steering group flagged concerns about the rising cost of the national children’s hospital but that no alarm bells were sounded in government. Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin says the Government needs to “come clean” about the details of the escalating cost of the national children’s hospital. "No one's against a children's hospital - in fact, in some respects, the rush to have a children's hospital probably has led to where we are in the sense that people were despairing that we'd never get it after the planning application was refused. Health Minister Simon Harris has said he did not know about cost implications for the children's hospital during the lead up to the Budget process last year. Mr Harris maintains that the first time he became aware of an overrun of huge money for the national children's hospital was in August last year.

Source: Irish Examiner February 06, 2019 10:38 UTC