Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We would anticipate patients using the hospital in the latter part of next year or early 2025. I am confident that those time lines will be correct.

The budget allocated to the hospital is €1.433 billion. That is the budget allocated to it in 2018. It is going to cost more than €1.433 billion. Why do we not know how much more it will cost at this stage? First, the longer this goes on, the more it will cost to build because of the inflation clause in the contract and, second, we are standing up to the contractor. The contractor has put in many claims for additional money almost all of which we are fighting and almost all of which have been ruled in our favour.

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