Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There was a meeting in the HSE around the middle of November, which was absolutely mind-boggling to it. As politicians, we deal with the HSE all the time. I had been warned for months that I might as well forget about the 60 bed unit in Limerick hospital and the 50 bed unit in south Tipperary, both of which would be of concern to my constituency, about the national maternity strategy, about a rake of other issues in respect of primary care and all of that because they were gone. I was told they would be profiled. That is how the politics of it would work. They would happen and they would be announced, but they would be profiled out over a number of years because of this overrun. The communications in this regard went up through the system to Dean Sullivan on that date. Is that correct?

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