The Minister for Finance has revealed how €99m is to be deferred from other public expenditure projects this year as a result of the children's hospital overspend.

Latest: Simon Harris has addressed the Dáil and apologised for not answering a question on the children's hospital "more fully" when asked last September.

Fianna Fáil’s transport spokesperson Robert Troy said he was very concerned that there was going to be more reduced expenditure by the Department of Transport.

Fianna Fáil’s deputy leader Dara Calleary says his party will not be supporting Sinn Féin’s “sham” motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health Simon Harris in the Dáil later today.

The Tánaiste says a motion of no confidence in Simon Harris has "no chance" of passing.

Officials in the Department of Health tried to warn Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe about escalating costs at the national children’s hospital weeks before the budget, newly released documents reveal.

A coach and four has been driven through the image of fiscal virtue carefully constructed by the Taoiseach with the able assistance of his minister for finance.

Health Minister Simon Harris has blamed design elements for the spiralling costs of the national children's hospital and pledged to use the “full rigour of the law” to pursue those responsible for the huge bill.

Department of Expenditure and Reform’s Code of Practice seems to be at odds with Department of Finance policy, writes Catherine Shanahan

Limerick’s Cian Lynch was named Hurler of the Year for 2018. He is just 23 but in that short life, he has seen more public inquiries, tribunals or hearings than even he could wave a hurley at. Most fell short of provoking the kind of change that the events leading to their establishment demanded.

An inquiry into spiralling costs for the national children’s hospital will have the ability to blame individuals, the Government has announced after a forced U-turn on terms for the probe.

There is hardly an issue in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s in-tray that, no matter how circuitous the route, cannot be traced back to a failure of accountability.

Latest: The review of the rising costs of the National Children's Hospital has been told not to find any individuals to blame.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted the new national children's hospital may cost even more than its latest €1.433bn predicted price amid growing concern over the runaway budget involved.

Ireland’s long-awaited National Children’s Hospital has been named after the phoenix, and like the mythical firebird, it has risen from its difficult past.

Prosecutors are seeking a three-year jail sentence for the former president of the Vatican's children's hospital.

The Government has been put on notice of possible legal action to stop the development of the new €1bn children’s hospital at the St James’ hospital campus in Dublin, writes Catherine Shanahan of the Irish Examiner.

The founder of the Jack & Jill Foundation said he is “withdrawing gracefully” from his public campaign opposing the location of the new children’s hospital at the St James’s Hospital site in Dublin.

The Government has been put on notice of possible legal action to stop the development of the new €1bn children’s hospital at the St James’ hospital campus in Dublin.

The father of two children with cystic fibrosis welcomed the news that Ireland’s €1bn world-class children’s hospital has been given the green light by the Government after over 20 years of planning.

Latest: It has been confirmed the cost of the new national children's hospital will be over €1bn - more than one and a half times the last estimate in 2014.

Rural Independent TDs have called for the Government to cancel plans to build a new national children’s hospital in Dublin city centre, warning the location will fail to help children and teenagers in genuine need.

Although he does lose a few ‘cool points’ by odly stating the obvious: “photobomb”.

Construction work on the long-delayed new national children’s hospital will finally start early next year — provided the project overcomes an expected An Bord Pleanála grilling this autumn.