Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)

I welcome the Minister's response, but I would like to ask him some personal and pertinent questions. Would he wish to express a view on the concept of a tri-located hospital?

We were always mystified in Crumlin because we had a great relationship with the Coombe Women's Hospital in keeping premature babies alive who required very intricate surgery very early on in their lives that a maternity hospital was not the preferred option in terms of co-location. Will the assessment criteria proposed in the McKinsey report, Children's Health First, in 2006 be used in reviewing An Bord Pleanála tragic rejection of the current site?

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