Finian McGrath
Ceist:1084 Mr. F. McGrath asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the future of Temple Street, Children's Hospital (details supplied). [16296/02]
Vol. 554 No. 5
1084 Mr. F. McGrath asked the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the future of Temple Street, Children's Hospital (details supplied). [16296/02]
As the Deputies will be aware, Comhairle na nOspidéal is the statutory body set up under the Health Act, 1970, to regulate the appointment of consultant medical staff in hospitals, to specify the qualifications for such appointments and to advise the Minister on the organisation of hospital services.
The future provision and extent of paediatric surgery services was reviewed in 1998 by a committee established by Comhairle. The committee was asked to consider this issue in the absence of agreement among the three paediatric hospitals on the nature and structure of a replacement consultant paediatric surgeon post which had arisen at Our Lady's Hospital in Crumlin.