Children’s Health (Kathleen Lynn National Children's Hospital) (Amendment) Bill 2024

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The proposed change would give Ireland’s new National Children’s Hospital an official name in both Irish and English: **Ospidéal Náisiúnta Kathleen Lynn do Leanaí** and **the Kathleen Lynn National Children’s Hospital**. It would do this by amending the existing rules governing children’s health and the hospital development board. The main point is to make the hospital’s name explicit in law, rather than leaving it open-ended. That matters because it gives the hospital a clear legal identity and formally honours Kathleen Lynn, a pioneering doctor and campaigner for children’s health.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Children’s Health Act 2018 and therefore to amend the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (Establishment) Order 2007 (S.I. No. 246 of 2007) so as to direct that the National Children’s Hospital be named, in the Irish language, Ospidéal Náisiúnta Kathleen Lynn do Leanaí, or in the English language, the Kathleen Lynn National Children’s Hospital.

Last updated 30 January 2025