A TEAM of international experts committed to a review of plans to build a new national children’s hospital on the Mater Hospital campus are not required to visit the controversial site.

A BITTER row has broken out between Health Minister Mary Harney and former chief of the National Paediatric Hospital Philip Lynch over the reasons for his resignation.

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.

THE new Children’s Hospital of Ireland will be more than twice the size of Croke Park, it emerged yesterday.

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.

PARENTS who have spent the past five years campaigning for a new national children’s hospital are worried that the latest row over the location of the facility will delay the development even further.

COMPLETING the country’s new national children’s hospital in the shortest possible time was a crucial factor in the singling out of the Mater Hospital in Dublin as the site.

A PARENTS’ support group for children with congenital heart defects is furious at the delay in fitting out a new cardiac out-patients’ department in the national children’s hospital.

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THE redevelopment of the country’s largest hospital for sick children must be given the urgency it deserves, a parents’ lobby group will tell Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney today.

THE redevelopment of Crumlin Children's Hospital needs to proceed as soon as humanly possible, a parents' lobby group said last night after reports of an alternative to the Department of Health’s plan emerged.

FACILITIES at Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin have become so bad that they wouldn't pass basic hygiene tests, a leading consultant has warned.

LINDA DILLON will never forget the night she rose from the hospital vigil she kept beside her sick little girl.

A TIMETABLE on the redevelopment of the country’s major hospital for sick children must be published immediately, a parents’ lobby group is insisting.

HOSPITALS are being forced to cancel kidney dialysis treatment, limit cancer services and close beds because of cuts.