Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) has reported the theft of 36 computers from its unfinished National Children’s Hospital over two days in July to garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
The computers are estimated to be worth around \u20ac1,000 each.<\/p>\n
CHI said the PC units were stolen from the hospital’s Early Access areas on 30 and 31 July.<\/p>\n
A garda investigation is currently under way, it said.<\/p>\n
It was replying to a parliamentary question from Aont\u00fa leader Peadar T\u00f3ib\u00edn.<\/p>\n
CHI said the theft of the computers was identified by its ICT team and reported to garda\u00ed at Kilmainham.<\/p>\n
CHI said the site remains under the control of developer BAM until the hospital reaches substantial completion.<\/p>\n
It said CHI “can only comment on incidents affecting property belonging to CHI or the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board”.<\/p>\n
CHI said since the incident there has been a review of security, “with all access routes into the Early Access area”.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for BAM said: “As this matter is currently the subject of an ongoing investigation by An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, we are unable to comment further at this time.”<\/p>\n
Deputy T\u00f3ib\u00edn said that “this is the latest debacle in the shambles that is the National Children’s Hospital”.<\/p>\n
“Not only is it running years over time and millions over budget, now we have established there is a serious IT theft there, being investigated by garda\u00ed,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr T\u00f3ib\u00edn added that “if the hospital is unused, there is a greater chance that there will be more items stolen”.<\/p>\n
He added: “It’s a data risk to have computers stolen. There are questions to be asked about oversight and security during this construction phase with no end date.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) has reported the theft of 36 computers from its unfinished National Children’s Hospital over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-666991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}