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Explainer: Has last night's controversial NMH vote brought an election closer?
Absolutely not, according to Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.
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Absolutely not, according to Tánaiste Leo Varadkar.
The party leader said there was “consensus” within his parliamentary party to suspend Neasa Hourigan and Patrick Costello.
Losing the two TDs reduces the the government’s majority to just one vote.
The term has been defined in the government’s decision but not the legal documents of the agreement.
The government will not oppose a Sinn Féin motion calling for public ownership of the land.
Professor Mary Higgins of the National Maternity Hospital says the health of Irish women is driving need for a new campus.
Representatives from St Vincent’s Healthcare Group appeared before an Oireachtas Committee today.
Ministers are set to make a final decision on relocating the National Maternity Hospital on Tuesday, following intense scrutiny over the terms of the arrangement with St Vincent’s Healthcare Group.
The former Health Minister said “abortion services will be provided” at the new facility.
The Oireachtas Health Committee discussed the issue in a heated session last night.
The Minister for Health suggested during today’s meeting that a further pause was not likely.
Mary Lou McDonald urged the Taoiseach to convince St Vincent’s Healthcare Group to gift the NMH land to the State.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin said there was an urgent need for the new hospital.
Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is due to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee on Wednesday to defend the plan.
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley says Ireland’s history illustrates that the healthcare of women often came second to a Catholic moral code.
A range of questions are hanging over the relocation plan.
Transport Minister Eamon Ryan said further delay would not be the right choice.
The health minister and several medical professionals held a press conference this evening about the legal framework governing the new hospital.
The long-running controversy is back in the headlines this week.
The development is part of years of debate about the ownership of the site of the new National Maternity Hospital.
The Campaign Against Church Ownership Of Women’s Healthcare said the proposals were aimed to deflect from concerns around the ownership of the site.
The centre will be located at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin.
That’s according to Peter Boylan, former master of the National Maternity Hospital.
Stephen Donnelly told an Oireachtas committee he could not say how many terminations had been carried out at St Vincent’s Hospital.
Campaigners say the clinicians are “overly optimistic” about governance concerns.
The campaign chair said there had been a huge amount of ‘subterfuge and deceit’ over who will own the hospital’s land.
Varadkar said the government wants to own the hospital, and “ideally the land”.
The Assistant Professor at the School of Law in Trinity College says the law does establish a legal route for compulsory purchase.
The former Master of the National Maternity Hospital says the Catholic ethos will never meet with that of the State and it’s time to move on.
The hospital group has insisted that it will not sell the land on the Elm Park campus.
SVHG says retaining ownership will allow it deliver “integrated patient care”.
The Tánaiste has even raised the prospect of building the hospital elsewhere.
The Tánaiste said it is not clear whether the owners of the land are willing to discuss the sale.
The Taoiseach says it has always been his view that any new hospital should be owned by the public.
The Tánaiste has said there are “problems, quite frankly, in going forward with this project”.
Correspondence sent to the health minister reveals emotional pleas for the restrictions to be lifted.
The “very difficult decision” was made “due to the surge in community-acquired Covid-19 infections”.