Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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373. To ask the Minister for Health the locations persons attending the new national children's hospital will park to attend outpatient appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21474/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The urgent care centres to be developed on the campuses of Tallaght Hospital and Connolly Hospital are an integral part of the new children's hospital, providing urgent care as well as outpatient services including rapid access general paediatric clinics. The aim is to improve geographic access to urgent care for children in the Greater Dublin Area and support primary and community care paediatrics, as well as reducing Emergency Department and outpatient attendance at the main site. Each centre is expected to cater for a minimum of 15,000 outpatient attendances per annum.

Parking is available at both sites for outpatient appointments. A multi-storey carpark is provided at Tallaght Hospital close to the main door and Emergency Department. At Connolly Hospital, the main public car parks are located at the front of the hospital building and a small number of parking spaces are available at the rear of the hospital building. 

At the main hospital at St James's, an underground carpark is being built which comprises 675 spaces dedicated for family use, including outpatient appointments.