Taoiseach Enda Kenny has today insisted that another independent report into the location of the new National Children's Hospital has not been commissioned.

It has been reported a former Dublin city manager has been approached as part of the process of choosing a site for the National Children's Hospital.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has insisted he trusts Health Minister James Reilly, despite conducting his own research into locations for the National Children’s Hospital.

The resignation of junior health minister Róisín Shortall is the latest in a long list of high-profile figures to quit their posts in the health service since James Reilly took office in Mar 2011.

Health Minister Dr James Reilly has today agreed to an extension of the deadline for the receipt of the report of the Review Group on the National Paediatric Hospital.

Health Minister James Reilly has announced the make-up of the review group to consider the decision of an Bord Pleanála to refuse planning permission for the National Children's Hospital.

A publican has offered 80 acres of cut-price land a short drive from the Mater, close to key national roads and with an already working water and sewage system as a potential site for a new children’s hospital.

Experts have warned the future build of the National Children’s Hospital could be at risk if the Government fails to include a planner on its special review group.

When Health Minister James Reilly says that it would not be right for him to prejudge anything that might come out of the latest review of the plans for a new National Children’s Hospital, he never said anything truer.

A greenfield location will be considered for the new children’s hospital as an alternative to the city centre Mater site, Health Minister James Reilly confirmed.

The Minister for Health James Reilly has said he has ruled nothing out in terms of a location for the new National Children's Hospital, including building on a greenfield site.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse permission for the National Children’s Hospital at Eccles Street, Dublin 1, has come as a bolt out of the blue to the development board of the National Paediatric Hospital, government ministers, the HSE and the Department of Health. I don’t like saying “I told you so.”

Building a smaller national children’s hospital on the Mater site in Dublin is a “distinct possibility”, Health Minister James Reilly has said.

The country’s most senior paediatricians have warned against downsizing the new National Children’s Hospital to make it fit the Mater site, fearing a smaller building would mean sacrificing vital facilities.

Desperate attempts were being made last night by the Government to salvage the National Children’s Hospital, after plans for the long-awaited facility descended into a shambles.

IT WAS the word all sides in the divisive children’s hospital location row were dreading — review. An Bord Pleanála’s decision to refuse planning permission is to be studied by a review body to be set up under the chairmanship of former HSE chairman Frank Dolphin.

James Reilly insisted that the National Children’s Hospital would be developed, either at the Mater site in Dublin or elsewhere.

The Government has insisted it remains 100% committed to the long-awaited national children’s hospital as it ordered experts to explain why planners rejected the Mater site.

Thirty jobs are to be created at a business service outsourcing company in Waterford.

Thirty jobs are to be created at an IT company in Waterford.

THE HSE, described as a vital new structure for the health service just seven years ago, is to be replaced with seven speciality-specific directorates.

The Government has approved the drafting of new laws replacing the HSE with a new seven-part system.

THE HSE has refused to name three former senior health board officials who received hundreds of thousands of euro in lucrative non-tendered consultancy work after retiring from their posts.

THERE is no suggestion that HSE board chairman Dr Frank Dolphin did anything wrong to secure an HSE contract worth almost €300,000 but it still stinks to high heaven.

THE HSE spent more than €150 million to employ agency workers to replace staff who left the system or were blocked from jobs as part of cost-saving schemes last year — the highest rate in the organisation’s history.

The Chairman of the HSE Board Frank Dolphin is not ruling out another redundancy programme in the HSE.

IN the ongoing drive to restore Department of Health control over the day-to-day running of the health service, a handful of department officials have been appointed to a new interim board of the Health Service Executive (HSE).

A new interim executive board of the HSE has been appointed.

PATIENTS groups reacted with caution to yesterday’s planned overhaul of the HSE, with many hoping it heralds a move towards a better healthcare system.

THE Government has moved to take back direct control of the health service by overhauling the board of the Health Service Executive (HSE) ahead of the promised dismantling of the executive.

Health Minister Dr James Reilly has cleared out the board of the Health Service Executive (HSE), claiming the dramatic shake-up will improve services and accountability.

Health Minister Dr James Reilly has said he intends to accept the resignations of 11 members of the Health Service Executive (HSE) board tendered at a meeting this lunchtime.

The new Health Minister Dr. James Reilly will give the keynote address at the 7th Annual National Healthcare Conference, which is due to take place later this morning.

THERE must be zero tolerance of absenteeism, the newly appointed head of the Health Service Executive insisted yesterday.

THE new chairman of the HSE has identified patients’ access to their own medical records and greater use of information technology as key priorities during his term of office.

Dr Frank Dolphin has been named as the new chairman of the HSE succeeding Liam Downey who has completed the permitted two terms, it was announced today.

A new chairman has been appointed to the board of Temple Street Children's Hospital in Dublin.

COMMENTATORS need to be careful when talking about the Irish economy, which is continuing to grow at a faster rate than most other European countries, Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister Micheál Martin warned yesterday.

A WATERFORD-BASED multinational mobile communications company is to create 110 jobs, with recruitment already underway.

A WATERFORD-BASED multi national, mobile communications company is to create 110 jobs, with recruitment already underway.

AN ADDITIONAL 736 jobs could be created in Waterford and the south-east if Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) were upgraded to a university, the local Chamber of Commerce says.

WATERFORD Institute of Technology (WIT) has made a formal application to the Department of Education & Science to upgrade to university status.

PUBLIC relations consultant and former public relations adviser to the Government Monica Leech was last night approved as chief executive officer of Waterford Chamber of Commerce by a chamber sub-committee.

A UNIVERSITY in Waterford would generate 2,000 jobs and up to €100 million for the local economy, economic consultants have found.