Nama offers 11 sites for Children's Hospital

The Health Minister James Reilly has said Nama had offered 11 different sites for a new National Children's Hospital.

The move came after An Bord Pleanála refused planning permission at the proposed location on the Mater Hospital site in Dublin city centre.

An expert group set up to report back to the Government within two months on alternatives for the long-awaited facility will hold its first meeting this week.

James Reilly said the sites put forward by NAMA would be given consideration as part of the process, and that some of them may have potential for development as hospitals of a different type.