Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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811. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 524 of 7 March 2017, the details of the mechanism by which inflation in construction costs from 3% to 9% accounts for a cost increase for the new children's hospital from €404 million in 2012 to over €1 billion currently. [13208/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Final Project Brief for the new children’s hospital sets out the costs and funding proposals for the construction of the core hospital and satellite centres, including VAT provision, risk provision, all fees, decant, external works, enabling costs and project management costs. Importantly, it also includes commercial spaces (underground carpark and retail space), higher education facilities, the Children’s Research and Innovation Centre, and equipment.

I intend to bring a Memorandum to Government in the coming weeks on the new children's hospital, in which details of the costs and funding for the project will be set out. Following consideration of these matters by Government, the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board will be in a position to respond to you directly regarding details of the inflation in construction coats and the impact on the overall project cost.

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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812. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 524 of 7 March 2017, the reason the €605 million estimate for the cost of the children's hospital calculated in 2015 was cited in that response and not the original estimate from 2012, of €404 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13209/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) was appointed in 2013 to design, build and equip the new children’s hospital at St James's Hospital.

€650 million of Exchequer funding was approved in 2014 for the core construction of the new children's hospital together with the two Satellite Centres on the campuses of Tallaght and Connolly Hospitals. This funding was approved following a cost estimate that commenced in 2013 and was completed in early 2014. This relates to the project at the St. James’s campus.