AMID all the politicking surrounding the proposed new National Children’s Hospital may be we’ve lost sight of the endgame: that there are parents around the country for whom quality of care is the only relevant concern.

FUNDING is still secure for the national children’s hospital which has reached the formal planning application stage, the chief executive of the development board has said.

A PRIMARY school forced to defer re-opening because of a TB outbreak will be expected to make up lost days during the remainder of the school year.

PAEDIATRICIANS at some of the State’s largest hospitals outside Dublin have condemned the Health Service Executive (HSE) for failing to include them in the consultation process for a new national children’s hospital.