Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy may be right but, for example, let us say in 140 years' time we have a much better location for a maternity hospital, or multiple better locations for maternity hospitals, or healthcare has advanced to the point where there is a blended model of acute care provided in very different ways and we might no longer want this or that hospital. I am saying it is very difficult, in fairness, to know what we will want to do with a building in 150 years' time, especially in the world of healthcare where things move, and medical science is advancing, so quickly.

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