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

Ms Lucy Nugent:

These are wheelchairs. Before halo-gravity traction wheelchairs, historically, a child would have been confined to bed. Now there is a specially designed chair that means they can sit in a chair and move around. I know there are definitely two chairs.