Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 21 March 2017
812. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 524 of 7 March 2017, the reason the €605 million estimate for the cost of the children's hospital calculated in 2015 was cited in that response and not the original estimate from 2012, of €404 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13209/17]
View answerThe National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) was appointed in 2013 to design, build and equip the new children’s hospital at St James's Hospital.
€650 million of Exchequer funding was approved in 2014 for the core construction of the new children's hospital together with the two Satellite Centres on the campuses of Tallaght and Connolly Hospitals. This funding was approved following a cost estimate that commenced in 2013 and was completed in early 2014. This relates to the project at the St. James’s campus.
