The new National Children's Hospital is set to cost at least €1.7bn and is due to open in 2023.

A spokesperson has said that 3% of all the CCTV cameras will have the features installed and that how, or whether, they will be used has not been decided.

The country’s only paediatric chronic pain specialist is to leave his post at the end of this month, but the HSE will not advertise the post until the new year.

Ireland's data protection watchdog has warned the new National Children's Hospital that if it is considering utilising facial recognition technology in its security systems it would most likely have to conduct an impact assessment first.

The Christmas lights were officially switched on at Temple Street Children's Hospital by patient Jake and The Coronas.

The mounting costs for the €1.7bn children's hospital is set to rise further — by at least €50m — but project chiefs still can't predict what the final bill will be for the new facility.

Sinn Féin health spokesperson Louise O’Reilly had asked if the meeting was minuted given the scale of the project.

Concern has arisen over whether minutes are taken at meetings between the Health Minister and the chair of the board overseeing the state’s biggest, most controversial, infrastructural project, the cost of which jumped €450m last year to €1.433bn.

Fred Barry said he was disappointed at the level of progress to date, but added the project can still be complete in three years' time.

The chair of the board tasked with overseeing the building of the new national children’s hospital will tell a committee tomorrow that contractor claims “have not had a material impact to date”

A member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has called on the Taoiseach and the Government to appraise themselves of what is being spent on the new children’s hospital rather than “just showing up in a hard hat for a photo op”.

The contractor on the National Children's Hospital has submitted claims for more money, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

The Taoiseach has admitted he does not know why the State’s chief procurement officer, Paul Quinn , resigned from the development board of the National Children’s Hospital.

The Taoiseach has admitted he does not know why the State's chief procurement officer has resigned from the development board of the National Children's Hospital.

The Department of Health has refused to clarify why it did not make a public announcement following the shock resignation of the State’s chief procurement officer, who failed to flag the spiralling costs of the National Children’s Hospital.

The State’s chief procurement officer, who failed to flag the spiralling costs of the National Children’s Hospital with the Government, has resigned from the hospital development board.

An assessment of its own performance by the board of the new children’s hospital found “a high percentage of board satisfaction”, according to minutes of its August meeting.

The HSE has been accused of an "unacceptable" misuse of public money after it emerged it has spent more than €1m on children's hospital PR in the past five years - including €248,000 in the first half of 2019 alone.

"Fake" news and "scaremongering" - or an attempt to hide the true impact of the spiralling children's hospital costs crisis in plain sight after months of repeated delays.

The building frame of the new National Children's Hospital is now under construction as controversy continues over the projected cost of the project.

The developers of the National Children’s Hospital have submitted claims for additional costs worth some €12m since February.

The HSE has been accused of making “eejits” out of members of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), after it sought to convince them that there was no conflict of interest in the role of consultancy firm, PwC, carrying out a review into the huge cost overruns at the National Children’s Hospital.

The senior civil servant on the board of the National Children's Hospital has told the Dáil's Public Accounts Committee that he did nothing wrong by not telling cabinet ministers about the cost overruns associated with the project.

The board of the National Children's Hospital is giving evidence to PAC alongside the HSE.

The Government’s public representative on the children’s hospital board is set to attend a meeting with TDs today, a month after he didn’t appear at an earlier meeting.

Government ministers are highly annoyed at having to sacrifice money from their departments to fund the cost escalation at the National Children’s Hospital, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has confirmed.

The Public Accounts Committee is seeking "immediate clarity" in any possible conflict of interest over professional services firm PwC which not only advised health chiefs on the children's hospital but also completed a review of the project.

The Public Accounts Committee wants immediate clarity over any possible conflict of interest over firm PwC which not only advised health chiefs on the children's hospital, but also completed a review of the project.

Failure to construct a maternity hospital alongside the new €1.7bn children's hospital on the St James's Hospital (SJH) campus in Dublin would “be a financial and medical catastrophe”.

There are growing calls for accountability over the massive children's hospital overspend following the damning PWC report on the handling of the project.

The Minister for Health has told an Oireachtas committee that he is willing to do whatever it takes to strengthen the governance of the National Children's Hospital.

The report into cost overruns at the National Children's Hospital has been published by the government.

A public grilling of the officials in charge of the crisis-hit national children's hospital project will be delayed until mid-May because an independent review of what happened will not be completed on time.

There are “no significant savings to be had” that will affect the headline €1.43bn cost of the new national children’s hospital, the new project leader told the Oireachtas health committee.

The information has emerged on foot of a parliamentary question from Sinn Féin's Jonathan O’Brien who asked Health Minister Simon Harris for the revised cost of the PWC report.

The Department of Public Expenditure's secretary general has been forced to apologise to a Dáil committee after he told officials before a crunch children's hospital costs meeting that the group's chairman "has to control the mob".

The head of the Department of Public Expenditure has been forced to apologise to a Dáil committee after being heard by the Irish Examiner telling officials before a crunch children's hospital costs grilling its chair "has to control the mob".

Robert Watt has been accused by Fianna Fail's Marc Mac Sharry of giving two fingers to the Public Accounts Committee.

The Government’s chief procurement officer has confirmed that he did not inform Minister Paschal Donohoe or his secretary general about the cost escalations at the National Children’s Hospital project, even though he sat on its board.

The board of the National Children’s Hospital and top Department of Health officials have been recalled to answer further questions on a €450m overspend

The National Children’s Hospital board and top Department of Health officials are to be called to answer further questions on a €450m overspend at the Public Accounts Committee.

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Minutes from the board of the National Children's Hospital showed the Government's focus was on controlling the message, not the cost, the Dáil has heard.

The decision by children's hospital officials to consider gagging those involved in the project from talking about cost overruns last August is "not a policy of Government", a senior minister has admitted.