{"id":930,"date":"2020-05-08T14:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T13:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/long-overdue-decision-on-national-maternity-hospital-must-clear-the-way-for-full-public-ownership\/"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T13:06:57","slug":"long-overdue-decision-on-national-maternity-hospital-must-clear-the-way-for-full-public-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/long-overdue-decision-on-national-maternity-hospital-must-clear-the-way-for-full-public-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Long overdue decision on National Maternity Hospital must clear the way for full public ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD has welcomed the announcement that the Sisters of Charity have received approval from the Vatican to transfer ownership of the site for the new National Maternity Hospital to St Vincents Holdings CLG.\u00a0 However, this does not constitute public ownership of the site. \u00a0Deputy Shortall said today\u2019s development should be seen as just the first stage in a process where SVH CLG should now be required to transfer ownership of the site to the State.\u00a0 The public investment in the new hospital, of up to \u20ac500M,\u00a0 must be protected by public ownership of the site on which it is built.<\/p>\n<p>R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new National Maternity Hospital is badly needed and it is regrettable that it is taking so long to get to a situation where this much needed project can proceed.\u00a0 Today\u2019s announcement can only be seen as stage one of a process where the State can legally own this site and stage two must entail the ownership of the site transferring to State.\u00a0 We also need assurances that the governance structure of the new Maternity Hospital will be fully independent and separate to the corporate structure of St Vincent\u2019s Holdings CLG.\u00a0 The governance structure proposed in the Mulvey report does not provide that independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has always been patently clear that there could not be full public ownership of a hospital that was on privately owned grounds \u2013 whether religious or otherwise \u2013 and that such ownership would have significant implications for both the ethos of the hospital and the protection of the public purse. \u00a0It would be a serious error for the Government to contemplate the handing over this valuable asset and would repeat the mistakes of the past where taxpayer funded health and education infrastructure is gifted to private interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>08th May 2020<br \/>\n[ENDS]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Democrats co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD has welcomed the announcement that the Sisters of Charity have received approval from the Vatican to transfer ownership of the site for the new National Maternity Hospital to St Vincents Holdings CLG.\u00a0 However, this does not constitute public ownership of the site. \u00a0Deputy Shortall said today\u2019s development should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","category-roisin-shortall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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