Fianna Fáil TD Barry Cowen has said the government “would be gone if it wasn’t for Brexit”.

It comes as his party criticised the government over the National Children’s Hospital cost overrun and the nurses’ strike.

The costs of the hospital have spiralled to more than €1.7bn and nurses are on their second day of strikes in two weeks, with more to come.

Fianna Fáil is demanding to know which State capital projects will now be delayed as a result of the cost overrun at the NCH and accused the government for failing to avert the latest strike action by nurses.

Despite the criticism, the party has stopped short of calling for Health Minister Simon Harris to go, a move that would end the confidence and supply agreement and would bring down the Fine Gael-led minority government.

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