Harris defends increased spend on Children's Hospital

Cost who

Not just related to this project,but contractors price at tight,best-case-scenario to win contract.Logistics on that site are a nightmare, no space, 1,000 things going on at once.If jobs were awarded initially with bigger cost for more realistic pricing it may work out cheaper.

And why is that a surprise ? Wrong location for it.

And it's in the wrong place. Dickheads.

Sure wages are triple (on site) what they were 3 yrs ago

We irish have a lot of growing up to do......hand in the candy jar.

campaignforleo this is just bad management. A lot of things we can forego but with no bricks even laid yet it's already twice the budget. New procurement team needed Leo

Only Ireland can spend 1.4 f**king billion on a hospital in an area with poor road infrastructure

SURPRISE... SUR-FUCKING-PRISE

Burn it down , waste of money

Look after the children that are homeless first.

I don’t believe that not for one minute, not with this shower,, there’s a lot of cooking going on in the kitchen !!

.4 billion in brown envelopes 💶🤐

why wasnt this built on a green field site?...so when all the money is wasted on this site and all the problems that were highlighted regarding access and traffic what then?...it can only be jobs for the boys

Absolute shambles.

How does this happen every time? Someone somewhere needs to be audited. Twice the cost is unacceptable.

This explains why the Irish Government is the second most indebted government in the world. But I don't quite understand why rte is using to shorten their URLs

Wondering about the narrow roads to the hospital with all the heavy traffic especially during peak hours.

Let them build it no matter what the cost .. wait till you see how much they give away in foreign aid ... we need hospital let them spend it here .. anyway another delay will only cost more money anyway

Wow 😮. 1.4 bn euros 💶!

If we had listened to Bertie and Mary Harney it would have been built by now at a third of the price.

The gravy train is back 😡

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