Controversy over the new National Maternity Hospital continues to dominate the political agenda – with the Government continuing to insist its clinical independence is legally assured.
“That’s why you have heard people say well actually, functionally it is in State ownership. It is going to be owned for 299 years by the HSE. “The big term and condition is that the HSE is obliged to put on to that site a maternity hospital and there is a restriction that the site is only to be used for the purposes of a hospital,” she said.
In any event, she said the hospital will be run by a completely new company that has no reference to Mary Aikenhead or to ‘compassionate care’, another term which has been causing worry.
TheHardShoulder This is legal advice from a legal advisor to HSE.. a party who has skin in the game.. it is one opinion.. there are other (very different / contrary) legal opinions.. and because there are conflicting opinions somebody must be wrong.. 🤔