New National Maternity Hospital at the St Vincent’s University Hospital campus

The government and the HSE are building a new National Maternity Hospital at St. Vincent’s University Hospital campus. It will replace the current hospital at Holles Street. It will be a seven-storey building of more than 54,000 square meters. It will connect directly to the adult critical care and other services at St. Vincent’s.

What the hospital offers

The hospital will:

• offer the most advanced women's healthcare
• provide state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care
• deliver the leading maternity services in the country

The hospital will provide advanced women’s healthcare, neonatal intensive care, and maternity services for women and babies living in Dublin and the South East. It will also take care of complex cases referred by maternity units across the country.

The hospital will include:

• 244 beds, each in a private room with its own bathroom
• Five operating theatres, each with enhanced capacity for complex and multiple births including dedicated recovery areas (compared to four smaller scale theatres with shared recovery areas currently at Holles Street)
• 24 birthing rooms
• early pregnancy foetal assessment and ultrasound facilities
• direct access from the maternity hospital theatres and high dependency unit to theatres and ICU at St Vincent’s University Hospital
• increased facilities for colposcopy, ambulatory, gynaecology and urogynaecology services
• dedicated urodynamics room for the study and treatment of bladder incontinence
• regional fertility services
• inclusion of embedded ‘soft spots’ to allow for future expansion of key clinical areas
• facilities to support all maternity, gynaecological and neonatal services
• training and education spaces for health care professionals.
• a design to support the delivery of services between the National Maternity Hospital and St Vincent’s University Hospital

Current status - November 2026

The Government have approved the new National Maternity Hospital to proceed to construction. This will enable the HSE to proceed with the appointment of John Sisk & Son as the main contractor for the new hospital and Designer Group as the reserved specialist for the mechanical and electrical works.

The early work at St Vincent’s University Hospital is nearly finished. The main building work will start in early 2027 and is expected to be completed in 2033.