Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Construction of New National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board
9:30 am
Mr. Phelim Devine:
It was reiterated. That is incorrect. I have checked that with CHI. We have a full disabled access certificate granted for the project. Every room is wheelchair accessible. There are two specialist audiology rooms, which are for cochlear implants and things like that, where there is a threshold on the door because of acoustics. It is to get the seal around the door to make sure they can carry out the treatment. That has a temporary ramp that can be put down both sides to allow a wheelchair in. If those are the rooms they are referring to, that is the only area, but it is by design and was signed off by CHI and the specialist clinicians when we designed that.
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