Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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353. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric intensive care unit beds and paediatric high-dependency unit beds that will be available when the new children's hospital opens. [26945/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The New Children’s Hospital Project remains the most significant capital investment programme undertaken in the healthcare system in Ireland. It will play a key role in strategic reform for paediatric services and is fully aligned with Sláintecare.

The New Children’s Hospital will have 380 individual in-patient ensuite rooms, including 60 intensive care beds. The intensive care beds will be divided into three main areas including Neonatal Intensive Care, Cardiac Intensive Care, and Paediatric Intensive Care. All of these rooms have a dedicated place for a parent or guardian to sleep. This will make it much easier for families that have children or young people that need to stay in the hospital overnight, or in some cases for longer periods.