We write to you as a group of hospital consultants working in close collaboration across the Mater, Temple St, and Rotunda Hospitals, on the pressing national issue regarding where to locate the long and urgently awaited new Children’s Hospital.

STAFF shortages combined with an increase in births and poor infrastructure has led to “serious concerns” for the safety of mothers and babies in three of the country’s maternity hospitals.

PLANNED expansion of an emergency helicopter service to transport seriously-ill babies will not provide 24-hour cover, despite calls from doctors to do so.