Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Sláintecare
Mr. Dean Sullivan:
I will try to give a short answer. The target opening date for the satellite centres is 2021 and for the new children's hospital is 2023. However, it has been reported reasonably well in the public domain that there have been some challenges in the timeline linked to Covid and, indeed, some issues that existed before Covid. We are currently reviewing that timeline. For the moment, the target timeline is 2023, until it is decided to be something different, but there are significant challenges associated with that.