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Maternity hospital relocation long overdue – TD
THE relocation of the country's largest maternity hospital
at Holles Street to the campus at St Vincent's University
Hospital has been described as long overdue on
the Southside.
Minister for Health James
Reilly confirmed the move last
week, which is due to take
place by 2018.
Coming in at approximately
e150 million, the hospital
will be co-located with a
major adult hospital offering
specialist services.
The development will be
funded by the Health Service
Executive.
As one of the biggest maternity
hospitals in Europe,
Holles Street delivers around
9,500 babies a year and employs
over 820 people.
The new facility will cater
for up to 10,000 births a year
and will boast a high dependency
unit, a neonatal intensive
care unit and a special care
baby unit.
by Neil Fetherston
Deputy Kevin Humphreys
(Lab) said a new national maternity
hospital was long overdue.
“Over the last decade there
have been plans and proposals
to co-locate the National Maternity
Hospital with St Vincent’s
University Hospital at
Elm Park,” he said. “This announcement
by the Government
is an important push
forward to realise this long
overdue move, which has been
years in gestation.”
Deputy Humphreys said
that in the early 2000s when he
served on the Board of Holles
Street, this was a long held
dream.
“But the e150 million of
funding announced by Minister
for Health James Reilly will
make it a reality,” he added.
Co-location for Holles Street
was recommended in the 2008
KPMG Independent Review
of Maternity and Gynaecology
Services in the Greater Dublin
area.
“Experts agree that a maternity
hospital should be colocated
with adult acute
services, and this will ensure
modern, specialised care for
mother and baby,” Deputy
Humphreys said.
“I have regularly raised this
issue in the Dáil with the Minister,
and I am delighted to finally
see progress towards
providing a new hospital.
“The National Maternity
Hospital has been sited on
Smart Joe is a
winner all right!
THIS suave gentleman was the best dressed man
at the Guineas Spring Racing Festival held at the
Curragh Racecourse recently.
● Mark Dunne, manager of the Newpark Hotel Kilkenny, and
Alexander Fitzgerald, fashion judge, present Best Dressed winner
Joe Gregg with his prize. Photo by Conor Healy Photography
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Holles Street for over a century,
and delivered over 9,000
births in 2012. It is time we
provided a modern building to
cope with the population
boom.’
The HSE has spent over
e16 million on capital investment
at Holles Street in the last
10 years and over e2 million
alone in 2011.
The first of the Irish classics,
the weekend attracted over
12,500 people who were keen to
watch some of Europe’s top
thoroughbreds battle it out for
classic glory.
It was also the first time that
there was a prize for the best
dressed man and Joe Gregg,
from Dundrum, caught the eye
of the fashion judges with his
dapper Louis Copeland suit
which he wore with a vintage
waistcoat and blue silk tie.
Joe’s prize included membership
to the Curragh Racecourse
and a weekend break
away in any one of the four,
family run Flynn Hotels in the
country.
This fabulous prize was presented
to Joe by Mark Dunne,
manager of the Newpark Hotel,
Kilkenny and Alexander Fitz -
gerald, editor of Irish Tatler
Man, who was one of the judges
on the day.
New university
for Tallaght?
AN announcement by the
Minister for Education and
Skills, Ruairí Quinn, of a
major reorganisation of the
higher education sector could
result in a new university for
Tallaght, it has been
claimed.
Deputy Eamonn Maloney
(Lab) welcomed the announcement
that includes provision for
the creation of new technological
universities.
"I particularly welcome the
instruction by the Minister to the
Higher Education Authority to
begin consolidation of three
groups of Institutes of Technology,
to progress towards attaining
Technological University
status,” he said.
“The groups are the Institute
of Technology Tallaght, the Institute
of Technology Blanchardstown,
and Dublin
Institute of Technology.
“This is formal recognition
of the progressive policies undertaken
by the Institute of
Technology Tallaght for some
time now.”