Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is absolutely necessary in order to integrate the services. The issue of parents' rooms constantly comes up. All rooms outside of the intensive care unit and the high dependency unit have facilities for parents. On the Crumlin road there is a charitable organisation providing facilities where parents or other children can stay. For the benefit of people who have never been in that situation, parents need to wash clothes, feed their children and feed themselves. I have never used Ronald McDonald House because I am based in Dublin, but the facilities there are absolutely essential to supporting families who come from further away so they can live their lives without incurring huge hotel expenses.

This might be a question for the Department but is there any issue with Children's Health Ireland being a section 38 organisation in terms of the committee's access to its accounts in the future?