Seanad debates

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Senators Norris, O'Donovan, Feeney and Bacik referred to the national children's hospital. I have no difficulty arranging for the Minister for Health and Children to come to the House to give an up-to-date assessment on progress on the Mater Hospital site. Senator Phelan expressed a concern about the site. I have never met a Kilkenny man who did not know where Croke Park was. The people, including people living outside Dublin, want the state-of-the-art facility for our sick children now. As Senator Feeney said, anyone who watched television over recent nights will have seen that the proposal for the Mater Hospital site is world class. It is a state-of-the-art facility. Let us start the process with the €450 million. The remaining €200 million will be found over the next few years. It would be wonderful to see the hospital opened for the 100th anniversary of 1916 in 2016. The people of the north side of Dublin deserve investment of this nature. If one's child is sick, one would not be too long finding out where the hospital with state-of-the-art facilities is located.

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