Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise the issue of the long-awaited of the new national children's hospital, which cannot open soon enough. The understanding all along has been that there will be 380 beds in the facility. This week, Children's Health Ireland, CHI, released an update video about the hospital that in which reference was made to 300 beds. Can the Minister clarify if that was an error on the part of CHI? If so, it would obviously need to be corrected. Are there any circumstances in which the number of beds could have been reduced from 380 to 300? That would be entirely unacceptable and would constitute a major problem. Will the Minister clarify the position? If he cannot do so now, will he come back with a clarification later in the day?

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