{"id":3384,"date":"2020-01-27T01:05:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T01:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2020-02-28T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T18:23:27","slug":"answers-required-reilly-varadkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/2020\/01\/answers-required-reilly-varadkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Answers required -Reilly , Varadkar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

General Election 2020 : We demand answers from Fine Gael before the Election.<\/strong>Fine Gael claims<\/strong> that clinical considerations were paramount in choosing St James\u2019s. Is Fine Gael trustworthy? The New Children\u2019s Hospital Alliance(NCHA) has TWO Questions arising from the interview recorded below. The public deserves answers to them both from Senator James Reilly,<\/strong> FG, \u00a0running in the Dublin North constituency and from the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar<\/strong> running in the Dublin West constituency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 1 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You claim an Expert Group of both National and International People  advised you that St James\u2019s was the right site for the new children\u2019s hospital \u2013 Who was that group?  Name it, publish its report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could you name even one  clinical condition or one of the \u2018Super Specialists\u2019\nyou claim are in St. James\u2019s and whose presence on a shared site is required to\nprevent children having to go abroad for treatment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview: Newstalk 106,  Moncrieff Show, 23<\/strong>rd<\/strong><\/sup> June 2016.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ This interview was the only time the public was informed by any politician as to why St. James\u2019s was chosen by the Cabinet on the 8th November 2012 for the site of the new National Children\u2019s Hospital when Senator Reilly was Minister for Health]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sean Moncrieff:<\/strong>   Senator James Reilly is still with us, we have been talking obviously about the Health Service. And we’ve had a few texts in here on a kind of similar theme. Please ask Senator Reilly why he chose the Wrong Site at St James’s for the Children’s Hospital? Blanchardstown is more accessible, faster, cheaper and has the Rotunda going there. No one can explain this Medical Speciality Reason either, can he?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator James Reilly (Fine Gael):<\/strong>   First of all I didn’t choose the Wrong Site. I chose the Right Site. As advised by an Expert Group of both National and International People . <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will actually explain what the primary concern here was. We have a small population, North and South, for some of the more rare conditions. What we wanted to achieve was an economy of scale here, where we would have sufficient numbers to deal with some of the rarest of problems, which currently require our children to go abroad for treatment.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now if you’re ill with a condition as an Adult, it’s distressing. But when you’re a Child, it’s particularly distressing, and you want your family around you. So the more people, more children we can treat in this country, that was the goal. So the, being able to bring the Experts, the Super Specialists<\/strong>, who deal with Adults and Children, for these very rare conditions, was a primary concern, and the Primary Clinical Driver.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Em certainly, you know, the arguments made\naround access, and at a Greenfield Site. I mean you might as well go to a\nGreenfield Site, no disrespect to James Connolly. Because you know, James\nConnolly it’s an excellent Hospital, but it’s a Model 3 Hospital, it doesn’t\nhave the Super Specialists in there. The bulk of them are in St\nJames’s. The site is plenty big enough, plenty big enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it has excellent transport\nconnectivity. Now people talk about a sick child, you’re not going to use\npublic transport. That is never the case anyway, because a sick child is always\nbrought in by an Ambulance or parents in a hurry. But the main traffic in any\nlarge Hospital like that, is Staff. And the fact that Staff can get in and out\nin a way that doesn’t cause all sorts of traffic problems, because the\ninfrastructure is there, is a huge consideration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went through this back and forth and\nback and forth. And at the end of the day, I am from Fingal, and Blanchardstown\nis in Fingal, so I mean you know Fingal would have been attractive to me. The\nMater was attractive to me. But at the end of the day, the best, the best\ndecision, on the best of advice was St James’s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I believe now what we have to do is,\nand I know there’s a petition out there with 60,000 people saying, you know,\nmove it. Let’s please not revisit this. There are children who are in trouble\ntoday. This hospital needs to be built as quickly as possible, not delayed by\nanother two years of wrangling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision is made. The money is there. Let’s built it as quick as we can. So that we can truly say that those dark days, and how we treated children in the past, and God knows they were dark, are done. END.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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General Election 2020 : We demand answers from Fine Gael before the Election.Fine Gael claims that clinical considerations were paramount in choosing St James\u2019s. Is Fine Gael trustworthy? The New Children\u2019s Hospital Alliance(NCHA) has TWO Questions arising from the interview recorded below. The public deserves answers to them both from Senator James Reilly, FG, \u00a0running … Continue reading Answers required -Reilly , Varadkar<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}