Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 July 2018
639. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to provide funding to a reconstituted national maternity hospital that will be a subsidiary of a group (details supplied) of which the ultimate owner will be an entity that will report to the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. [30737/18]
View answerIn relation to the redevelopment and relocation of the new maternity hospital at Elm Park, I can confirm that the terms of the Mulvey agreement provide for the establishment of a new company which will have clinical and operational, as well as financial and budgetary independence in the provision of maternity, gynaecology and neonatal services.
At present, a draft legal framework is being finalised which will ensure that the State's significant investment in the new maternity hospital will be protected; this framework will also further underpin the operational and clinical independence of the new hospital.
