Sir, – I wonder what odds I would get for the newly- planned children's hospital for Northern Ireland being completed (Home News, October 21st) before a sod is turned for the national children's hospital here in the Republic. Given that the HSE is going to be preoccupied sorting out the medical card fiasco and eventually becoming an organisation that employs health care workers (only) while offering nothing in the way of universal, quality healthcare, I'd say pretty good. – Yours, etc,
ORLA MAGORRIAN,
Dollymount Park, Clontarf,
Dublin 3.