Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent)
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700. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to construct a maternity hospital at St James's Hospital Dublin; if planning permission has been sought or granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35114/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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As announced in June 2015, the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital will relocate in time to the St James's campus, achieving tri-location of adult, paediatric and maternity services. The National Maternity Strategy, published in January 2016, reaffirms the delivery of tri-located maternity services on the campus with the new children's hospital and St James's Hospital. A site for the proposed maternity hospital is identified in the Site Master Plan for the St James's campus, and the new children's hospital design has incorporated the required operational links with both maternity and adult hospitals.

While the construction of the new maternity hospital on the campus will not commence until the new children’s hospital is completed, consideration will be given to the work required to progress the new maternity hospital design. As the project is at a very early development stage, planning permission has not yet been sought.