Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

I am not an expert in this area. It seems from the various reflections and reports we have been given since Tallaght Hospital was established, particularly the Hayes report, that insufficient homework was done in advance of the merging into one big entity of three small hospitals that had very different perspectives. When one goes into Tallaght Hospital, one will see evidence of the involvement of the Adelaide Foundation, the Meath Foundation and the Children's Foundation. We have to learn lessons from that. That is why so much work is being done in advance of the development of the new children's hospital. We are trying to tease out some of these issues.

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