Parents fear hospital row may delay plans

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.

Two Dublin hospitals have now declared that they will not be co-operating with the Government’s plans to locate the new hospital on a site at the Mater Hospital in Dublin.

Both Tallaght Hospital and Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin said they would not be participating in the development of the new 380-bed facility at the Mater.