{"id":1623,"date":"2021-06-22T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/varadkar-must-clarify-remarks-on-holles-street\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:10:54","slug":"varadkar-must-clarify-remarks-on-holles-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/varadkar-must-clarify-remarks-on-holles-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Varadkar Must Clarify Remarks On Holles Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The government has said it will not oppose our motion. They must go further &#8211; and actively support it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The T\u00e1naiste should immediately clarify remarks he made in which he suggested Holles Street was a Catholic-ethos hospital, according to Social Democrats co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeo Varadkar said he worked at the national maternity hospital at Holles Street and never felt \u201cthere was a nun or a priest looking over [his] shoulder\u201d when he was treating women. He further said that \u201csome people\u201d were failing to acknowledge that Holles Street is a Catholic-ethos hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a very simple reason that people are not acknowledging this. Mr Varadkar is wrong. Holles Street was never a Catholic-run, or owned, hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe national maternity hospital in Holles Street was set up by Royal Charter in 1903. That Charter makes no reference to Catholic ethos. This is why services contrary to Catholic ethos \u2013 like sterilisation and IVF \u2013 are performed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to this, St Vincent\u2019s is most definitely a Catholic-ethos hospital and declines to provide women a full range of medical services \u2013 like sterilisation or even contraception \u2013 for that reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, it is hardly alarmist for parties like the Social Democrats \u2013 who have always advocated for a separation of church and state in the provision and management of our public services \u2013 to raise concerns about the ethos of the proposed new national maternity hospital and its ownership structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has said it will not oppose our motion on this issue tomorrow \u2013 demanding the new hospital is constructed on land owned by the State and is publicly governed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on Mr Varadkar, and the entire government, to go further. They must actively support it \u2013 and act on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>22 June, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has said it will not oppose our motion. They must go further &#8211; and actively support it. 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