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€1bn cost overrun for new Children's Hospital

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    #1232
    lola85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭lola85


    Shock someone bursts a pipe while constructing a building.

    Happens every day.


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    #1233
    salmocab
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    I’m inclined to think there are are plenty of reasons to be annoyed over this project and BAM but not sure hitting a water mains in another hospital is one.


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    #1234
    Tacitus Kilgore
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    Were they digging the hole with a crane?


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    #1235
    Odelay
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    steves2 wrote: »
    BAM cut the water off in Tallaght Hospital last week by accident while digging, apparently didn't have a Banksman present while doing the work. It nearly closed the hospital down. These clowns are inept and yet the incompetence of the tendering process all across the Children's Hospital sites lets them claim for extra costs.


    Hey, I went looking for a source for your complaint, is this it?

    https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/national/15919677.burst-water-main-forces-four-hospitals-to-cancel-operations/


    Were you getting the information from Facebook?


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    #1236
    facehugger99
    Registered Users Posts: 7,225 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    steves2 wrote: »
    So they're doing a great job you think?

    Haven't inspected their work or verified your particular claim - so I couldn't possibly say.

    The thing is, I doubt you could either TBH.


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    #1237
    Snow Garden
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    I think the taxpayer already knows that this project will be another expensive disaster due to bad planning and negotiation.
    At the same time, the government should be giving regular updates on the costs in order to focus the civil servants on getting value for money
    and managing it tightly.


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    #1238
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/official-quits-as-national-childrens-hospital-costs-spiral-958558.html
    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.

    The shock resignation comes as Taoiseach Leo Varadkar signalled in a letter to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin that there may be more overspending on the hospital.

    The project is already €455m over budget and the cost looks set to rise further as contractors involved have submitted numerous claims.
    The board, as of August, was still awaiting a final figure for the circa €2bn project from developers BAM and that the HSE was still working off an estimate.

    Clueless.


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