Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Fionnuala Duffy:

Not quite. They are happening in tandem. It is vital that they happen now so that the hospital is fully ready to open appropriately. We are currently investing in ICT in Connolly and Tallaght urgent care centres which will open next year and the year after in order to ensure there is appropriate ICT in those facilities. Investment in services and the work that is going on with staff, families and others to ensure an appropriate safe transfer to these new facilities is required. That has been happening over the past few years and could continue up to and a little beyond the opening. We are funding that through revenue-----

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.