Funding ‘secure’ for national children’s hospital

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.

But Eilísh Hardiman refused to say why the board’s chairman, Philip Lynch, resigned his position, saying she was not privy to such information.

While Mr Lynch has been refusing to explain why he resigned, it is believed it was over concerns about cost and location of the new €650 million hospital on the campus of the Mater Hospital site in Dublin.