A new National Paediatric Hospital is to be developed on the site of St James's Hospital in Dublin, the Health Minister has confirmed.

Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh welcomed the announcement by Minister Simon Harris, however he said he was disappointed that the Minister missed an opportunity to announce a name for the new National Paediatric Hospital.

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Deputy Ó Snodaigh has campaigned to have the hospital named after pioneering medic Kathleen Lynn, whose first children's hospital in Ireland St Ultan's was closed down in the 1930s.

Deputy Ó Snodaigh has previously written to the Minister and his two predecessors suggesting the name of Kathleen Lynn as being wholly appropriate. He also had suggested the idea to Minister Heather Humphreys when she was in charge of the 1916 Centenary events last year as being an appropriate time to bestow the honour on the only woman who was a commandant during the 1916 Rising.

(CD/JP)