{"id":297349,"date":"2026-02-14T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297349\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T07:17:09","slug":"a-disappointing-planning-decision-for-irelands-busiest-maternity-hospital-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297349\/","title":{"rendered":"A disappointing planning decision for Ireland\u2019s busiest maternity hospital \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 In upholding the appeal to planning permission for a critical care extension at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rotunda-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/rotunda-hospital\/\">Rotunda Hospital<\/a> (Ireland\u2019s busiest maternity hospital), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-coimisiun-pleanala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-coimisiun-pleanala\/\">An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la<\/a> stated the proposed development did not represent \u201can overwhelming public benefit sufficient to justify the degree of heritage harm identified\u201d(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/02\/13\/plan-for-100m-critical-care-extension-at-rotunda-maternity-hospital-blocked-on-appeal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/02\/13\/plan-for-100m-critical-care-extension-at-rotunda-maternity-hospital-blocked-on-appeal\/\">\u201cPlan for \u20ac100m critical care extension at Rotunda maternity hospital blocked on appeal\u201d<\/a>, Business, February 13th). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As a former master of another Dublin maternity hospital, I would argue the opposite: the decision to block this development, which can (literally) deliver overwhelming public benefit cannot be justified because of the degree of (clinical) harm it may well cause. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Respectfully, it seems An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la had the right words \u2013 but in the wrong order. \u2013 Yours, etc, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">CHRIS FITZPATRICK, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 In upholding the appeal to planning permission for a critical care extension at the Rotunda Hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,61,60,43,629],"class_list":{"0":"post-297349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-an-coimisiun-pleanala","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-rotunda-hospital"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297349","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=297349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}