Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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158. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of the proposed new children's hospital, with particular reference to the need to ensure an early starting date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15140/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board is the statutory body responsible for planning, designing, building and equipping the new children's hospital. The new hospital will be co-located with St James's Hospital, and ultimately tri-located with a maternity hospital to be developed on campus. In addition to the main hospital, the project includes two satellite centres at the campuses of Tallaght and Connolly Hospitals.

A design team is now working on detailed design development with planning submission scheduled for June 2015. Subject to planning, work is scheduled to commence at the main site at St. James's, and at satellite centre sites at Connolly and Tallaght, in January 2016. Transition of services to the new hospital is expected to begin in April 2019, and to the satellite centres in 2017.