Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 July 2017
542. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Health his plans to close the children's facilities at Crumlin, Temple Street and Tallaght as inpatient paediatric hospitals once the new national children's hospital is fully operational. [33078/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraOn completion of the new children's hospital new facilities, services will move from the existing locations into the new hospital and Paediatric OPD and Urgent Care Centres. The transition of services to the new children’s hospital is scheduled to commence in Q3 2021 with transition of services to the paediatric OPD and urgent care centres commencing end 2018 (Connolly Q4 2018, Tallaght Q1 2019). Accordingly, paediatric services will no longer be provided at the Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital facilities. At Tallaght, the existing paediatric facilities will be used for adult services. The future paediatric services at Tallaght Hospital will be in the new paediatric outpatients and urgent care centre on the Tallaght hospital campus.
