Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Health has put the facts about the site chosen for the new national children's hospital firmly in the public arena. It is a suitable site and the building and development of the hospital will go ahead on it. It will be a state-of-the-art national children's hospital which is long overdue and badly needed. It will provide an excellent service for the parents described by the Deputy because it will have state-of-the-art facilities for the children of the country. The site has been examined and recommended and the decision taken to go ahead. It has received planning permission. I hope that in the next couple of years we will finally have a state-of-the-art natinonal children's hospital.

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