Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Construction of National Children's Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

Mr. Phelim Devine:

Yes, is the answer. At the early stages of the design of the hospital, and before we went into planning, we had designed in all of those future links back to the future maternity hospital. The critical link is between critical care and the delivery suites of the maternity hospital back into the neonatal intensive care unit, NICU, in the children's hospital. That link is provided for, for the future.

We have also provided future links into a redeveloped St. James's Hospital at level 3. There is also an facilities management, FM, link to provide shared services linkages between the children's hospital, St. James's Hospital and the future maternity hospital because we are using specialist robots to transport materials around the site.