Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I congratulate Deputy Brendan Howlin on his new position.

Will the Minister tell the House what paediatric services currently provided in Tallaght Hospital will be removed from the hospital? Is she aware that the widespread concern across the community about her plans to close down Tallaght as a paediatric hospital derives from serious concerns about the inaccessibility of the Mater site, and this Government's breach of faith with the original board of Harcourt Street Children's Hospital, to whom it said that a paediatric hospital would be maintained indefinitely in Tallaght? Will she indicate the time frame for transferring paediatric services from Tallaght to the projected new hospital on the Mater site?

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