Minister for Health Simon Harris TD today announced that the Government has approved the investment required to enable the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board to instruct the current contractor for Phase B of the works to complete the building of the new children’s hospital on the St James’s Hospital campus and the two Paediatric Outpatients and Urgent Care Centres on the Tallaght and Connolly Hospitals campuses.
In welcoming the Government’s decision today Minister Harris said: “The new children’s hospital and the two outpatients and urgent care centres at Connolly Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital are long awaited and I am very pleased that the construction can continue now without delay. The hospital will facilitate the implementation of a new model of care that will have a profound impact on all paediatric services once the new hospital is open,”
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