Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will finish because I do not want to end up arguing with anybody in the Chamber because that is not my way of doing politics but I assure the Deputy that there has been wide consultation during the past two years with every community group, every family with a sick child, every neighbourhood and all the staff and different services on the campus. I attended the oral hearing, which lasted more than two weeks, and sat through many presentations by people for and against locating the hospital there. The new national children's hospital on the site of St. James's Hospital will give us an excellent hospital that will facilitate and care for the very many sick children in this country, particularly those coming up from the country.

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