Hospital sought charity for buildings

A voluntary children’s hospital has told the HSE it would apply for charitable funding for minor building jobs to allow it to reallocate money and indirectly cover its pension deficit.

The Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, revealed its plans to the HSE as part of a revised budget strategy to get it through 2012.

At the time, it projected a pension shortfall of €1.2m and applied to its sister charity, the Children’s Fund for Health, for €700,000.