Dr. Emma Curtis:

There are a number of universities, three medical schools in Dublin and the nursing colleges, from which there will be attendance. There are seven institutes of higher education involved in the planning of the use of the education space. There are two elements to it. There is the school for national and secondary school age children, which will be run by the Department of Education. There are also a number of special school areas envisaged. There will undergraduate training, which will be doctors, nurses, health and social care professionals. This is not only a Dublin-based resource. Those training in nursing in Cork, for example, would spend a period in the children's hospital as part of their training. It will be a national resource as well. There will be the postgraduate training of doctors whose training specialty is paediatrics and also general practitioners who are doing paediatric training. There will also be the continuing professional development for the clinical staff within the hospital. There is a very extensive education plan at all levels for the new hospital.