Many questions go unanswered due to time limits, but politicians on best behaviour

‘No certainty’ coronavirus can be suppressed, warns chief medical officer

Guidelines broken even if witnesses move locations after being together more than two hours

FG TD Colm Brophy says there is ‘no logic’ in paying for insurance during pandemic

Deputy chief medical officer hopes social distancing becomes normal habit

Independent TD Michael McNamara says social distancing will be maintained

Harris urges ‘collective cop-on’ so that easing of restrictions does not reverse progress

Plea rejected despite targeted savings of €50m from generic or biosimilar medicines

Hundreds of women told that review of their slides has produced a different result

About 90 older buildings set to be replaced or refurbished under €385m initiative

Healthcare quality report finds MMR uptake 3% short of target; hospital antibiotic use increases

Paul Reid appears before PAC says if projects affected it’s likely to be those slated for 2020-21

Two-thirds of 80,000 backlog of tests due to decision to offer free out-of-cycle smears

HPV testing unlikely to be introduced this year, HSE officials tell Oireachtas committee

Timeline: Project had an overrun of €61m five months after getting the green light

Officials discussed how ‘construction costing is trending very significantly over budget’

Hospital board member Paul Quinn appointed in personal capacity, Harris says

Cost of children’s hospital could exceed €2bn, ‘which would make it the most expensive hospital in the world’

Alan Kelly says public confidence in how large projects are managed is ‘lost’

Departure of UK from EU may result in ‘rationalisation’ of Irish medicine supplies

‘It’s a mess,’ admits Department of Health head as scaled-down project ruled out

Department of Health says an underestimate of material added €115m to cost of project

No capital projects stopped because of overruns but some may be ‘deferred’ - Varadkar

PAC to hear €50m of overrun for St James’s site to come from health budget this year

Public expenditure secretary claims health counterpart should answer Oireachtas questions

Taoiseach says latest increase is ‘way beyond what we had ever anticipated’

Cost estimates for facility at St James’s Hospital spiralling from 2012’s €404m

National treatment programme to expand to reach more of the 30,000 infected with virus

Minister says contingency plans are being made but there is no stockpiling of drugs

HSE chief says those affected may be ‘upset and disappointed’ over delay in informing them

Minister warned Paschal Donohoe that Government capital plan was “unbalanced”

Day-to-day HSE spending and insurance firm practices main culprits behind overspend

Consultant had roles in several high-profile projects, some of which attracted controversy

Solution that will not affect patient care will require ‘serious effort’, committee told

Sign-off agreed on director share-buying at US firm as cancer controversy deepened

Terminally-ill Limerick woman seeking accountability over CervicalCheck scandal

Tony Holahan insists Department of Health decision not to escalate ‘reasonable’

Scally warns of ‘fevered atmosphere’ around cervical screening controversy

Doctor expresses concern about difficulties he has met in carrying out scoping inquiry

Interim HSE chief says top management not told of row between doctors and CervicalCheck