Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

We spent time in the Dáil today talking about the failures in terms of scoliosis, spina bifida, and all of the serious, serious failings in terms of children's health in Ireland, and that needs to change, and this is a crucial piece of infrastructure that's so badly needed and needs to be completed.

Okay, can I ask Brian Turner on, on, on that issue? 'Cause, and we know that the Minister for Health, uh, Jennifer Carroll McNeill, has been expressing concern about the number of, of, uh, personnel on site by BAM.

Now, BAM, we know, are, are saying that they are dealing with a situation where the spec is changing constantly, and obviously over the period of time that this has been in construction, spec will have changed and demands will have changed for, for, uh, various aspects of this project.

Wh-wh-where do you see the biggest problem lying, Brian?

Now, that's not going to happen.

There are 789 rooms that are, still aren't completed within this hospital.

So we, what we're calling for i- is somebody to take control of this project, somebody within government, uh, ideally the Minister for Health, to get control of this and to get this project finished and open so we can start treating the sickest children in Ireland and deliver this crucial piece of infrastructure, because this can't go on the way it's going.

Brian Turner, very quickly, if you were a betting man, when would you see the first children treated in the National Children's Hospital?

What's the Minister for Health? I can't remember her bloody name.

Jennifer Carroll, whatever her name is.

McNeil, yeah.

McNeil, yeah.

Senior Counsel Remy Farrell, who carried out today's report, says that while a statutory inquiry can provide insight, it's not a panacea for all the problems of the past.

The Minister for Health, Jennifer Carol McNeill, joins me now from our Cork studio.

Good afternoon.

Good afternoon.

And he has made that recommendation.

to place constraints on it.

Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll-McNeill, thank you for joining us from our Cork studio this afternoon.

It seems this issue, which we've covered many times before, this leaking roof at a theater in Sligo University Hospital is, uh, is a problem still, despite all, uh, the assurances.

And you, you may remember, the Minister for Health herself, Jennifer Carroll McNeil, was, uh, at the hospital back in May of last year, May, uh, twenty twenty-five, and this was one of the, uh, issues that she, uh, talked about because there were efforts underway at the time to ensure that leaks in the orthopedic theater roof at the hospital would never happen again.

Rain had come through the roof in the theater on a number of occasions, uh, causing disruption to elective, uh, surgery.

Uh, Minister, uh, Jennifer Carroll McNeil was at the hospital to turn the sod on a new forty-two-bed block and address the issue of the leaking roof, which she said was not acceptable.