Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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515. To ask the Minister for Health when the urgent care satellite unit for children at Connolly Hospital will be open; if a staffing plan has been put in place to ensure it will work at capacity from opening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12220/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Paediatric Outpatients and Urgent Care Centres at Connolly Hospital and Tallaght Hospital are scheduled to open in 2019 and 2020 respectively, in advance of the opening in 2022 of the main hospital on the St James's Hospital campus.

A workforce planning and resource strategy is in place to support the staffing requirements for the new services as they come on stream, and is being worked through to ensure the services have the right number of staff in the right place at the right time.