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Ireland blocks €100M Rotunda Hospital expansion over heritage concerns, keeping maternity services in Dublin.
Ireland’s government has blocked a €100 million extension to the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin due to heritage concerns, confirming the hospital will remain on Parnell Square.
The decision ends plans to relocate maternity services to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown.
Healthcare advocates and opposition leaders warn that decades of underinvestment have left the Rotunda’s facilities, including its high dependency unit, among the worst in the country.
With the hospital delivering over 8,600 births annually—the most in Ireland—officials and activists are urging immediate political action to improve infrastructure and ensure safe, sustainable maternity care.
Irlanda bloquea la expansión del Hospital Rotunda por 100 millones de euros por preocupaciones de patrimonio, manteniendo los servicios de maternidad en Dublín.