Location of hospital is not child’s play

Building the National Children’s Hospital in Dublin’s inner city is nonsensical. Connolly is a much better fit and the Government must admit it was wrong, writes Fin Breatnach

Why, oh why can we do nothing right? With the perfect 145-acre site available for the new National Children’s Hospital next to Connolly Memorial Hospital off the M50 and with nine out of every 10 children in the country living outside the M50, in 2012 with no justification whatsoever, the Fine Gael/Labour cabinet decided to build it deep in Dublin’s inner city on a congested site at St James’s Hospital.

Here we go again. That site was chosen without a single report ever recommending it and without the involvement of either parents or staff.