Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 11 July 2018
419. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for the full opening of the new national children’s hospital and satellite centres in Blanchardstown and Tallaght; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31561/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe new children’s hospital on the campus shared with St. James’s Hospital will be completed by the end of 2022. The paediatric outpatients and urgent care centre on the Connolly Hospital campus will open in 2019 followed by the second centre at Tallaght in 2020.
Main site construction works such as basement excavation, piling, service diversions and building a utility tunnel for the campus are continuing on the campus shared with St James’s Hospital. Works at Connolly are progressing as scheduled, the entire concrete structure is now complete. Works at Tallaght are also progressing with the decant and crèche works scheduled to be completed in August 2018 and main works on the paediatric outpatients and urgent care centre expected to commence in September 2018.
