'It is simply madness' - Cost of children's hospital will not be known until its completed

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”.

Marc MacSharry, a Fianna Fáil TD for Sligo-Leitrim, told RTÉ Radio’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show that correspondence from the National Paediatric Hospital development board, presented to the PAC, now claims there are a number of exceptions outside the approved budget and that there cannot be price certainty on the final cost at this point for the new children’s hospital.