Crumlin to discuss new children's hospital

Representatives of Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin are to meeting with the HSE and Department of Health to resolve the…

Representatives of Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin are to meeting with the HSE and Department of Health to resolve the dispute over the siting of a new national children's hospitals.

In a brief statement the board said have said had mandated representatives of the hospital to attend the meetings "with a view to finding common ground towards advancing the building of a world class tertiary hospital for children."

The process was thrown into disarray in recent weeks when staff at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin called for an independent review of the decision to site the the new national children's hospital at Dublin's Mater hospital.

Shortly afterwards this was followed by a call from a member of the board of Tallaght hospital to site the new hospital across two sites, not just at the Mater.

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The plan aims to merge the existing hospitals for children in Dublin - Crumlin, Tallaght and Temple Street - into one on the Mater site.

Temple Street is the only hospital currently supporting the plan.