Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Sharon Sheehan:

I remind everybody that the Connolly for Kids group also proposes a tri-located model. It is not proposing that we build a stand-alone hospital. We are saying the same thing as the group that appeared before the committee before us. Tri-location has been shown to be a better model, and we are all saying that. We are showing with our proposal that tri-locating on the St. James's Hospital site is the best option. However, there is no dispute among ourselves or any other group that tri-location is the preferential model.