Tánaiste says Pearse Doherty risks being used as a pawn by BAM over Children's Hospital delay 

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has made grave accusations against the builders of the new National Children's Hospital.
He claimed at Leinster House that main contractors BAM had not resourced the hospital site adequately for some time and was "delaying" completion of the project.
Availing of Dáil privilege, Mr Martin said the various deadlines set by BAM were "likely to be part of a commercial strategy by BAM to try and extract more money and more funding from the Irish people."
He called on the contractor to resource the site "adequately and comprehensively to enable this hospital to be completed as fast as we possibly can."
But he was told by Sinn Féin that the NCH project has been "a slow-moving car crash since day one" and Health ministers have been asleep at the wheel, the Dáil was told today.
Pearse Doherty of Sinn Féin reminded the Tánaiste that Leo Varadkar had said many years ago that "short of an asteroid hitting the planet," the National Children's Hospital would be built by 2020.
The safe bet now was that the hospital would not be operational before 2026, he said.
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