Only 27 rooms out of a projected 3,000 have been completed for the new National Children's Hospital, with building costs to potentially increase to over €2 billion.

Priscilla Lynch, Clinical editor with the Medical Independent, and John Lahart, Member of the Oireachtas Health Committee and Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South-West joined The Last Word to discuss.

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