Surging cost of children's hospital will see €100m cut from other government plans

The surging cost of the national children's hospital will see €100m cut from other government plans this year - with half of the sum coming from the Department of Health.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar admitted the runaway €1.7bn budget's immediate impact as it emerged three Dáil committees are now insisting the Department of Public Expenditure's secretary general Robert Watt is forced to give answers on the overspend.