Maternity Services Provision

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 1 April 2015

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Questions (112)

Billy Kelleher

Question:

112. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 724 of 24 March 2015, if either the Rotunda Hospital or the Coombe Hospital in Dublin will be relocating to the Mater or Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, as recommended in the 2009 KPMG report; if either hospital has indicated a desire to move to those proposed locations or to move to a different co-location with another acute hospital; and his views that any relocation or co-location would only be with an acute hospital in the same hospital group. [13542/15]

Written answers

Minister for Health

My Department is currently reviewing the recommendations made by KPMG (2008) in relation to the locations for the redevelopment of the Coombe and the Rotunda Hospitals. This review was necessitated by the decision to locate the new National Children’s Hospital at St James’s Hospital, and the consequent need to provide a maternity hospital on that campus in order to have a trilocated adult acute/paediatric/maternity facility. The review is expected to be completed within the next month.

The Masters of both the Coombe and the Rotunda were invited to submit their views to the Department to inform the review. The Deputy can be assured that the submissions received will be fully considered before I make any decision in this matter.