Edinburgh's new Sick Kids hospital: Payments to private consortium go up - your views

"If it was not up to standard, then no payments at all should have been made to the consortium”

Sick Kids

Payments to the private consortium responsible for Edinburgh’s much-delayed new Sick Kids hospital are to increase, despite the fact the building is still not fully operational

Ian Mountford

This is so, so sad. Mismanagement from the top.

Derek Patterson

If it was not up to standard, then no payments at all should have been made to the consortium until it was certified as being fit for purpose by an independent assessor!

Jonny Lumsden

Another letdown costing us millions.

Billy M Mclaughlan

Everyone involved should be sacked and fined. Everyone of them is an absolute disgrace, like with the trams and the parliament and the repair system.

Alan Paterson

So, £50m just thrown down the tubes? Have you ever seen a city/ country that wastes so much money? Beggars belief- and no-one held accountable. These clowns wouldn't last two minutes in private industry.Disgraceful.

Scott Alexander

Sue the construction company instead of paying more money to fix it.

Daniel Cranmer

Par for the course with everything now. I’m surprised at the surprise. There will no doubt be an inquiry into it costing more - £12 million and counting on the inquiry for overspending on the trams- it’s unbelievable.

Marlene Heriott

If it was the builders’ fault they should rectify the problem without any more costs to the public!

John Smith

It’s the same old story, nothing gets done correctly or on time or on budget. How can these people get away with all this incompetence and no one takes them to task for anything? Scotland is becoming embarrassing now., but they just don’t care anymore.

Lioslaith Rose

This is why we won't get independence - no one trusts a government that doesn’t bring projects in on time or on budget, or even close to it.

Robert Howlieson

No wonder there is no money for the Eye Pavilion.

Stephen Flynn

Good to see learnt from parliament, trams, etc.

Charlie Craig

Why are we surprised when we have a party that cares more about independence than they do the health service running Scotland?

Phillip Messenger

Why are there not penalty clauses in the contracts for going over time and budget? Surely this is normal practice.

Elizabeth McArthur

One has to wonder how many replacement Eye Pavilions this debacle would have built.

Anne Lesley

The ventilation and air exchange in schools is not to the correct standards either, yet requests made to Jeane Freeman to investigate have been ignored.

Alan Burnett

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has a lot to answer for, So in the election coming up, vote to kick the SNP into touch.

Grant Aiktken

A classic example of what happens when you award the contract to a private company without going through the full procurement process correctly.

Trams suspended

Edinburgh Trams services have been suspended due to the extreme weather conditions

Mark English

I thought extreme weather was meant to be the new norm due to climate change! Surely they factored this in before spending billions of pounds on the system that no one asked for! Thank goodness cars haven’t been completed banished by the council yet!

Central radio taxis toll-cross

The 25 passengers a day will be devastated.

Joseph Macrae

Shower of snow and the capital city of Scotland grinds to a halt! It’s wintertime, so its to be expected. Not in the tropics is it?

Chris Storey

It’s not extreme weather, it’s a bright day with uncleared crisp snow.

Graham Mitchell

A tram that can’t run in the snow. Time to rip up the project.

John Hewit

When we got that load of snow a few years ago, everything ground to a halt EXCEPT the trams. They kept them running 24 hours a day to keep the lines clear and they were free! What’s different this time?

Dianne Peters

Trams were a complete waste of tax payers’ money.