Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach is right that we are fortunate to have extraordinary people working in maternity services but they often work in adverse conditions. This afternoon, the HSE apologised to those women whose experiences were outlined on Joe Duffy's radio programme and recognised shortcomings that need to dealt with through the provision of proper resources. The Taoiseach indicated that the Holles Street will be moved but the project was announced by the former Minister for Health, Senator Reilly. As the then Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, I allocated the money to allow that to happen. However, it still has not happened. The money was allocated almost five years ago.

The most urgent issue now is that we are building a state-of-the-art children's hospital. It is to be tri-located but the Government will give no indication of when the Coombe hospital will be moved to the site involved.

The Government has an opening date for a new children's hospital but the whole idea was to have it close to a maternity hospital-----

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