Crumlin wants overseas experts to assess site

OUR Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin will only co-operate with plans to build a specialist children’s hospital if the site is chosen by an independent panel of international experts, a consultant at the Dublin hospital stressed yesterday.

Dr Finn Breathnach, a consultant paediatric oncologist at the children’s hospital in Crumlin, said he could not agree with the decision by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to locate the new children’s hospital beside the Mater Hospital in Dublin.

“We remain hugely concerned about the process by which this decision was reached. Not all options were considered,” said Dr Breathnach.