Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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548. To ask the Minister for Health the plans being made for the buildings that will be vacant when the new children’s hospital opens; to provide a breakdown of the number of buildings this will affect; the plans that have been made for new occupiers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28549/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The New Children’s Hospital (NCH) project is a much-needed investment in healthcare services for our children and young people which is now in the final stages of construction. Once NCH is open and fully operational, the three existing children’s hospitals at Temple Street, Crumlin and Tallaght will close.

The Children’s Health Act 2018 provided for the establishment of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI). Under that legislation, the board of Crumlin voluntarily transferred its assets and liabilities to the new entity, CHI. As such, the Crumlin hospital campus has transferred to CHI.

In May 2024, Government noted that Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown and the current site of CHI at Crumlin had been identified to be brought forward into the planning phase for two new elective hospitals in Dublin. These are in addition to those sites already identified in Galway (Merlin Park University Hospital) and Cork (St Stephen's Hospital, Sarsfield Court).

Since then, work has been ongoing to consider how an elective hospital might be incorporated into the Crumlin campus, following the decant of CHI services into NCH, and the Blanchardstown campus.

Following decommissioning of Temple Street, the building will revert to the ownership of Mater Misericordiae University Hospital.

Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)
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549. To ask the Minister for Health if a timeframe for disposal of the Baggot Street Hospital building has been agreed. [28554/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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As the Health Service Executive is responsible for the management of the public healthcare estate, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly in relation to this matter.