Pitifully little charity either.
A religious order that owes millions of euros in compensation for child abuse will retain ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital after it is built with more than €200 million of taxpayers’ money.
The new hospital will be built on the Elm Park site at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin. St Vincent’s Healthcare Group is run and owned by the Sisters of Charity, which has paid only €2 million of the €5 million it offered to contribute in reparations to abuse victims. Its most recent payment was in 2013.
The religious order will own the maternity hospital as well as a new independent company that has been established to guarantee corporate governance, but the HSE has said that its interests will be protected once construction is completed.
The HSE said the land at the St Vincent’s campus was being made available for the new hospital at no cost to the state and that “appropriate security arrangements” would be put in place to protect state interests.
Nuns who owe millions in abuse reparations given hospital (Ellen Coyne, The Times Ireland Edition)
Previously: ‘Based On The Findings Of The McAleese Report’
The HSE said the land at the St Vincent’s campus was being made available for the new hospital at no cost to the state and that “appropriate security”.
Appropriate security what? That sentence doesn’t make sense.
Sorry TheQ47, fixed now. Thank you.
“appropriate security arrangements” would be put in place to protect state interests.
Like what? Bouncers or indemnity from prosecution or exclusion from FOI requests? I wouldn’t trust these old mickey-dodgers if you paid me.
This is the Vincents hospital that was recently being investigated for using public assets to guarantee the loans on their big new shiny private hospital.
So the funds will continue to roll in – big time. Further, it would seem that maternity services will continue to remain under the control of a Catholic organisation, with all the dangers to womens’ health that that entails.
I’m not typically one for state appropriation but surely if one is in arrears, one’s assets can be held until payment is made?
Pack a hoors.
This is going to be fun once the 8th is repealed…
Actually – how do they handle the current limited circumstances where abortion is permitted?
Over in England, I believe.
Nuns managing a maternity ward? Wrap them rosaries around them ovaries. The church thinks the only good woman was a virgin FFS…
+1 Nuns in charge of women is just WRONG.
I saw one one of these nuns slip on a banana skin outside the hospital and break her hip.
God, I laughed my bum area off. Sorry I didn’t have a camera with me.
id say she broke a few more hips in her time.
Ah shure what’s a few sawn pelvises in the great scheme of things? A bunch of female misogynists hire a bunch of sadistic male misogynists to work as ‘gynaecologists and obstetricians ‘ in their Hospitals. Nothing unwholesome there. :-(
This is unconstitunal as the State cannot endow a religious entity, how come all
this is allowed by the HSE and the Dept of Health, is there a quasi secret catholic
group embedded in the organs of State Institutions pulling the strings.
I would hazard that that may well be the case. There isn’t any other reasonable explanation I can think of.