Government to consider 'all options' to open hospital wing for women and children

Rotunda project would have provided for 80 extra hospital beds, alongside a new theatre and connection to the existing entrance and main hospital buildings. File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The Government will consider “all options” to get a wing of the Rotunda Hospital for care of critically ill women and children back on track, the Tánaiste has said.

Simon Harris said he is angry at the decision of An Coimisiún Pleanála to refuse planning permission for the €100m wing of the hospital, after Dublin City Council previously gave the project the go-ahead.