An Bord Pleanála has cleared planning permission for a new €160 million women’s and children’s hospital in south Dublin.
The 120-bed facility adjacent to the UPMC Beacon Hospital will be built by Landmark Developments for the Beacon Medical Group in Sandyford and will create 450 jobs, the project developers said.
It will be privately operated but “may be accessed by both publicly and privately insured patients”, the group said.
A spokesman for Landmark and BMG said the group was pleased permission had been granted for this “urgently needed” project.
He said the hospital would bring “enormous benefits to the region, particularly in the South Dublin/Dún Laoghaire Rathdown area and nationally”.
It would create jobs for 450 people with 650 ancillary jobs. Some 550 people will be employed in the construction phase.
The hospital will provide paediatric, maternity and gynaeocology services, with six delivery rooms, 12 neonatal intensive care and special care beds, four theatres, 30 day care beds, eight urgent care beds and 16 consultant/general clinical suites.
There will be 24 hour obstetrician, neo-natal and anaesthesia coverage.
The group said the hospital would be happy to enter an agreement with the HSE “to alleviate the present and future capacity issues that are evident in the system”.
Healthcare company BMG was founded by cardiothoracic surgeon Prof Mark Redmond, businessmen Michael Cullen (chief executive) and Paddy Shovlin. Businessman John Delaney is also a director.