'Everything on the table' for inclusion in new Limerick hospital

The plans follow warnings from Hiqa to the health minister in September about immediate patient safety risks

University Hospital Limerick's current campus. Picture: Dan Linehan

Limerick's new hospital facility could offer much needed emergency care to a region which has been blighted by overcrowding for a number of years.

Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said "everything is on the table" for the new hospital including emergency provision and maternity care.