The HSE has agreed to consider delaying the activation of a traffic barrier at the back of Merlin Park until June.
It aims to stop the Merlin Park campus being used as a "rat-run" by traffic at peak times, running from Merlin Lane, through the hospital grounds, onto the Dublin Road.
At a meeting of the HSE Health Forum West this week, Councillor Shane Forde was advised it will be a very strict system, and it should be in place by April.
But Councillor Forde asked that it be put-off until the end of June - until the schools are closed.
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