National children’s hospital development
Bernard Durkan asks about the hospital development Bill and its relationship with new children’s emergency units at Tallaght and Connolly hospitals. The Taoiseach explains that those units will relieve pressure on the national paediatric hospital and offers further information.
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What is the status of the national children's hospital development Bill? To what extent is it enhanced or affected in any way by the recent and welcome announcements of similar developments in the hospitals in Blanchardstown and Tallaght? When will the Second Stage debate of the Bill be held?
Comment on this
The two announcements for Tallaght Hospital and the Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown relate to children's emergency units. They are to take pressure off the national paediatric hospital. When it is built they will provide specialist services for children. I will send the Deputy a copy of a letter that sets out the progress in respect of the development board and the hospital.