Oireachtas Health and Children Committee visit Ireland’s First Children’s Hospice, LauraLynn House

Deputy Regina Doherty along with colleagues from the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children were today given a tour of Ireland’s first Children’s Hospice, LauraLynn House, in the grounds of the Children’s Sunshine Home in Leopardstown. The Home will officially open in September.
Deputy Doherty says “the committee and I were both incredibly impressed and humbled with the huge amount of work that has gone into creating this important place.” Philomena Dunne, CEO of the Children’s Sunshine Home said “We are delighted to be working so closely with both the committee members and the new government on the opening of LauraLynn House in September. So much hard work and dedication has been put into this project and it is wonderful to receive this recognition.”
LauraLynn House will provide community-based paediatric palliative and respite care in a unit designed and built specifically for this purpose. The house has eight bedrooms each with an en-suite facility and comfortable living accommodation. Family apartments will enable families to come and stay and be near their child. The team caring for children and their families includes Medical Director, Consultant Paediatrician, Nursing Team, Physiotherapists, Dietician, Social Worker, Speech & Language Therapist, Chaplain and Volunteers.
“This is a fantastic and much needed facility for the parents and children alike, I would like to congratulate all those involved in the construction” says Doherty.