IT was the Health Service Executive (HSE), not international medical experts, who recommended the new national children’s hospital be built on the Mater Hospital site in Dublin, a member of the health authority stressed yesterday.

A recommendation to locate a new national children’s hospital in the Bertie Ahern’s constituency was not a political one, it was maintained today.

MEDICAL sources last night indicated that the Mater Hospital would be the site of the new national children’s hospital.