{"id":1814,"date":"2022-04-28T18:50:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/health-minister-must-come-before-health-committee-to-answer-questions-about-maternity-hospital-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T18:50:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T17:50:12","slug":"health-minister-must-come-before-health-committee-to-answer-questions-about-maternity-hospital-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/health-minister-must-come-before-health-committee-to-answer-questions-about-maternity-hospital-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister Must Come Before Health Committee To Answer Questions About Maternity Hospital Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The women of Ireland deserve better than the Minister doing a grubby backroom deal in secret<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Health Minister Stephen Donnelly must come before the Oireachtas Health Committee to answer questions about the proposed relocation of the national maternity hospital to St Vincent\u2019s campus \u2013 before he signs off on the deal, according to Social Democrats Health Spokesperson R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very concerned that this deal is now a fait accompli and it is going to be signed off, behind closed doors, before the terms have been independently scrutinised. The only documents that have been published to date, concerning this deal, are those that have been lodged in the Company Registration Office by St Vincent\u2019s Healthcare Group. This is not good enough.\u00a0There has been a complete absence of transparency at every step in this process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe controversy concerning the relocation of national maternity hospital has now raged for nearly ten years, but one central question has never been answered: Why does the State intend handing over a publicly-funded \u20ac1 billion new maternity hospital to the ownership and control of a private company?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not the only question that urgently needs to be answered. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly must now explain:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Why is the Minister handing over control of a new \u20ac1 billion publicly-funded maternity hospital to a private entity?<\/li>\n<li>Why has the Minister repeatedly refused to specify the women\u2019s reproductive procedures which will be available at the new hospital?<\/li>\n<li>Why is the new holding company indemnifying the Religious Sisters of Charity \u2013 and what are the implications of this for both the new maternity hospital and the tax payer?<\/li>\n<li>Why is the Minister promoting private medicine over the public interest and embarking on a deal which is at complete variance with Sl\u00e1intecare?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister has kept the Irish public in the dark, about this deal, long enough. If he has nothing to hide, then he must come before the Oireachtas Health Committee and answer these, and other, questions before he signs off on this deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis hospital, when it is constructed, will be used by generations of women. They deserve better than the Minister doing a grubby backroom deal in secret. The women of Ireland need answers. The Minster must now provide them, before it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>28 April, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The women of Ireland deserve better than the Minister doing a grubby backroom deal in secret Health Minister Stephen Donnelly must come before the Oireachtas Health Committee to answer questions about the proposed relocation of the national maternity hospital to St Vincent\u2019s campus \u2013 before he signs off on the deal, according to Social Democrats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-press-release","category-roisin-shortall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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