Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 May 2025

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Séamus McGrathSéamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

I am caught for time but might get a chance to come in again later. I will go briefly to Children's Health Ireland to finish on a different note. When this hospital is operational next year, will CHI give us a sense of what it will do for children's health? Will there be a seismic change in treatments and waiting lists? We need to get some sense of where we are with this. Obviously, the project is bogged down in a quagmire of rising costs, legal costs, disputes and so on. Where are we as regards children's health, which ultimately is the important issue?

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