Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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492. To ask the Minister for Health the proposal regarding the future or disposal of the site and buildings of the Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, and Temple Street Hospital when their functions are transferred to the new national children's hospital at Rialto, Dublin. [32026/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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In April 2016 the unanimous decision of An Bord Pleanála to grant planning permission for the hospital, satellite centres and related buildings as designed, allowed for enabling works to begin this summer on the campus of St. James's Hospital. It is expected that the satellite centres at Connolly Hospital and Tallaght Hospital can open in 2018, significantly enhancing access to urgent care and outpatient services for children from the Greater Dublin Area. Building work on the main site will be completed in 2020.

On completion of the new facilities, the service will move from the existing locations into the new hospital and satellite centres which will provide all secondary paediatric services for the Greater Dublin Area and all tertiary and quaternary services for the country as a whole. Accordingly, paediatric services will no longer be provided at the Temple Street and Crumlin facilities. The existing hospitals are fully supportive of the plans. Future uses for the existing facilities and sites are not yet determined. The HSE has entered into Memoranda of Understanding with Temple Street and Crumlin Hospitals to ensure that the State's investment to date in the hospitals is protected when the paediatric services are transferred to the new children's hospital.