{"id":239211,"date":"2026-01-11T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239211\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:22:09","slug":"health-minister-jennifer-carroll-macneill-lays-out-massive-task-involved-in-getting-patients-into-new-national-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239211\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill lays out massive task involved in getting patients into new National Children\u2019s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Hopes are high that it could be operational by end of the year\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is pushing to reduce hospital waiting lists and improve service. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4fd08fd3-aa0d-4956-b8d4-c0e1e1548a5c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is pushing to reduce hospital waiting lists and improve service. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An autumn-winter transfer of patients to the new National Children\u2019s Hospital is being mapped out, despite no date yet being set for its completion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill admitted this week that she does not know when the long-delayed \u20ac2.24bn hospital will be finished, though early access was given last month to the sixth level, which has more than 360 rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hopes are high that it could be operational by end of the year Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is pushing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4593,103,397,396,2120,61,60,1421,29096],"class_list":["post-239211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","tag-national-childrens-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}