National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] Dail Éireann — 2021-06-23 ============================================================ Michael Healy-Rae (IND), Kerry I will speak about the matter at hand, which is the national maternity hospital and the fact that this project was first announced in 2013, almost eight years ago. Like the national children's hospital, the real scandal with this development is the skyrocketing costs. In 2013, the original cost was in the region of €150 million. The cost has risen by----- --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2021-06-23/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:49:25+00:00 Sitting date: 2021-06-23