Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed)

Mr. Damien McCallion:

The new children's hospital hub at Tallaght is open and we have seen some very positive outcomes there with 30% of their patients being seen in 12 weeks for day case services, to nearly 80%. So, we know the model works. Because they are on slightly different timescales I will give an overview of the sequence. The south Dublin hub, which is Mount Carmel, is a reconfiguration of the first phase of that and will open in the first quarter next year with the second phase mid-year. North Dublin has just come through the tender process, some legalities have been resolved and we would anticipate that coming on stream towards the end of quarter 3 next year. We cannot name some of these locations because we are in the tender process at the moment but that will come through and will close out in the next couple of weeks. Galway was an individual tender and that tender evaluation is just back. It will be closed off this side of Christmas. The plan is for that to open in 2024 subject to the outcome of that tender process. The balance of the other sites is a single tender that is currently in the first phase where the bidders have come through. Subject to that, the enabling works on those sites, including the site selection - Cork, Limerick, Waterford - are all parts of that tender then. The enabling works have started for-----

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