Location of new hospital - Transparency is the best defence

It is 25 years since the Royal College of Physicians proposed a single tertiary paediatric hospital in Dublin. Brendan Howlin was the minister for health then.

He has had 10 successors but we still don’t have a new national children’s hospital. When that proposal was made the population stood at 3.6m — today it is 4.8m. The prognosis is that the €1bn facility will open in 2021. Let’s try to be optimistic.