Hospital plan Rotunda pressure

Expansion vow after relocation move ruled out

- BY CIARA O'LOUGHLIN

AN EXPANSION of the Rotunda Hospital will “jump the top of the queue” under new critical infrastructure laws, the Health Minister has said.

Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is seeking for the project to be the first under the new legislation.

The Government announced on Tuesday that plans were abandoned to move the maternity hospital from Parnell Square to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown.