New Children's Hospital - A symbol of Ireland's scandalous and shady behavior

Zero accountability.

We're looking at 6-7 times over budget and 8+ years late. Final costs still unknown.

Surely as part of this building (and going forward for all other government projects) it should have been put out to tender with the stipulation that only fixed price contract offers will be accepted.I guess when you have a blank cheque being signed by the taxpayer you don't have to care too much about keeping costs under control.

The one thing we know about this is that no lessons will be learned and there will be more money squandered on other state projects in the near future.

100% agree but the issue was that this was rushed to tender because it was politically damaging to the government to admit it wasn't ready to start after so many delays.

The plans were not finalised and the whole thing was a mess. It would be impossible to submit a fixed price for the work when it wasn't fully known what was to be done.

BTW I'm not defending BAM here. They completely took advantage of the situation knowing they had a blank check but the planning and organisation of this has been a **** show from the start. It borders on criminal negligence on the government's part. To think many want the government building houses!

O'Reilly should have been up on charges long ago for some of the stunts he pulled.

it was rushed to tender because new eu rules were coming in on the following ja 1st, which meant they could not go ahead with it

You will be waiting a long time. And you won't ever be satisfied

It's apt that it's shaped like a fanny... Because we're being relentlessly fcked

Has he detailed what these lessons learned are? Anyone asked for specifics?

The bit I mentioned caused me to vomit violently and I didn't listen to the rest, but I think it went unquestioned

The Mater is less prestigious than St. James's Hospital. It is the largest hospital in Ireland, the national stem cell transplant centre and the leading hospital in terms off Cancer care. It is already very linked with CHI and likely after the move to James's site the labs in the Children's hospital and James's will be aligned to some degree, particularly likely given both are leading hospitals for genetic testing in Ireland.

This is a microcosm - expensive one- of the issues with our health and other services as to why they often are well resourced but under deliver. In a nutshell political interference - a certain person still in high elected office rushed the fences in terms of,announcing this, wanting to play Mr Popular when the design etc was,half,formed. I have no doubt it will be amazing and state of the art etc but it has added a new term to political debate here re runaway costs “ x will be a new children’s hospital “ our political system is now a popularity contest, bribing us with our own money.

Anyone who thinks this will be the best children's hospital in the world needs to stop, wake up to where you are and pay attention to those that have been involved in this utter shambles from the beginning, and realise you are a fool.

This is a monstrous waste of money. An obvious example of people in over their head who haven't a clue what they're doing. A construction company that should be forensically looked into. And politicians who should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

Bigger, better built structures have gone up in less time.

Only here would this shite be accepted and will be celebrated on national tv sometime in the dark distant future

That's if that shower in rte are still there too.

Passed it a couple weeks ago, it stands out like a sore thumb.

looks like the Aviva Stadiums first cousin!

Staggering waste of money, Typical of a lot of stuff built these days.

Style and Architecture over Practicality and Simplicity & cost.

For that money it surely has its own nuclear reactor or windmills producing its energy?

When they broke ground and found a river of liquid sand underneath they should have reconsidered the stupid location, but that was a political crony decision so they didn't.

Most of the cost over runs go back to building it in the wrong place. It will be a nightmare for anyone to get to - even Dubliners.

Yea, anything that's not square and its get out the chequebook time. I'd love to see the contract for the job, yes it must be design and build but surely the design intent should have been factored into the cost?