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Sat 12 Dec 2006Officials advised to take part in hospital site planTop officials at the three children's hospitals in Dublin have been told by the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive (HSE) that they would be better off taking part in the process of developing a new national paediatric centre rather than remaining outside. Martin Wallreports.The Irish Timesunderstands that at a meeting on Tuesday with the chief executives of the National Children's Hospital at Tallaght, Our Lady's Hospital in Crumlin and Temple Street hospital, senior officials of the Department of Health and the HSE reiterated that the Government had decided the new national centre would be developed on a site at the Mater hospital.