Our Ref: 29N.PA0043 P.A.Reg.Ref:

Your Ref:

Dr Pamela O'Connor Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin Dublin 12

8th October 2015

Dear Madam,

Re: Health Infrastructure Development comprising National Paediatric Hospital, Innovation Centre and Family Accommodation Unit at St James' Hospital Campus, Satellite Centres at Tallaght & Connolly Hospitals and Construction Compound at Davitt Road, Dublin.

An Bord Plean:ila

An Bord Pleana.Ia has received your recent submission in relation to the above mentioned proposed development and will take it into consideration in its determination of the matter. A receipt for the fee lodged is enclosed.

The Board will revert to you in due course with regard to the matter.

Please be advised that copies of all submissions I observations received in relation to the application will be made available for public inspection at the offices of Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and South Dublin County Council and at the offices of An Bord Pleanala when they have been processed by the Board.

If you have any queries in the meantime please contact the undersigned officer of the Board. Please quote the above mentioned An Bord Pleanala reference number in any correspondence or telephone contact with the Board.

Yours faithfully,

Ki ran Somers Executive Officer Direct Line:Ol-87371 07

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Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12,

and The Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, Dublin 8

The Secretary

An Bard Pleanmila

64 Marlborough Street

Dublin 1

29111 September 2015

RE: Co·Location of a tertiary maternity hospital with the new children's hospital (PA0043)

To the Secretary,

As a neonatologist involved in caring for the most critically ill newborn infants, I wish to highlight the

need for critical co·location adjacency of the proposed new national children's hospital with the

proposed Coombe Maternity hospital redevelopment on the StJames's site.Specifically there must

be enough capacity to accommodate Immediate co·adjacency with an integrated building design

combining the paediatric and maternity hospitals.

This is needed because of the criticality of illness our tiny newborn patients suffer. These infants

cannot cope with long corridor/tunnel distance connections. Due to the perilous challenge of

providing high level complex intensive care in motion, complications occur during these transfers

and our little patients can suffer morbidity and mortality.

As you adjudicate this planning application, I simply request that the board members fully

interrogate the limits/facility of site accommodation and deliverability of what is required to

provide this critical co-location model, and do so in the context of all other proposed

developments/plans for new and re·developments on the St. James Site. The 1.1 /ftllion newborn

infants and children of Ireland now and of the future rely on your expertise to make the correct

decision.

Yours sincerely

Or. Pamela O'Connor

Consultant neonatologist

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