{"id":353,"date":"2012-01-25T22:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/delay-in-new-national-childrens-hospital-highlights-difficulties-of-preferred-site\/"},"modified":"2012-01-25T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:45:46","slug":"delay-in-new-national-childrens-hospital-highlights-difficulties-of-preferred-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/delay-in-new-national-childrens-hospital-highlights-difficulties-of-preferred-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Delay in new National Children\u2019s Hospital highlights difficulties of preferred site"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delay in new National Children\u2019s Hospital highlights difficulties of preferred site<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/span> believes the decision by An Bord Plean\u00e1la to defer for a month a decision in relation to the new National Children\u2019s Hospital reflects the difficulties associated with locating the \u20ac650 million building in the city centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Crowe<\/span>, who in conjunction with his council colleagues submitted oral and written submissions on the issue, said that the complexities of the case means that it is important adequate time is taken to closely scrutinise the application.<\/span><\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cThere are very well-founded concerns about the suitability of locating the new hospital on the site of the Mater Hospital. Access problems and the fact that the city centre location is too restrictive could cause serious difficulties in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore submitting our objections we travelled on public and private transport from south west Dublin to the proposed site and this highlighted just how inaccessible the hospital location is. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt 68 metres high, the new building would be taller than Liberty hall and will dominate a very historical part of the city. There are fears that the hospital will be out of character with the Georgian architecture in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason given by An Bord Plean\u00e1la for the delay is the \u201cdepth and complexity\u201d of the case, which in my opinion succulently sums up just how problematic this site is. I am also concerned that difficulties arose in concluding this review because of the fact that there are now only four board members conducting this review after the contracts of other board members were not renewed. This illustrates the difficulties that are associated with cuts that have been imposed on the public sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important, that a decision of this magnitude exams all of the issues associated with this site thoroughly even if this means delaying the decision.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delay in new National Children\u2019s Hospital highlights difficulties of preferred site Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe believes the decision by An Bord Plean\u00e1la to defer for a month a decision in relation to the new National Children\u2019s Hospital reflects the difficulties associated with locating the \u20ac650 million building in the city centre. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}