From top: Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly; The Dermatology Department of St. Vincent’s University Hospital – this building currently occupies the site of the proposed National Maternity Hospital (NMH)
This morning.
Government plans to approve the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital have been put on hold after Ministers expressed unhappiness at the process and sought further time to consider it.
Via RTE News:
The Minister for Health has said he can “100% guarantee” that every service provided for by law, including termination of pregnancy, tubal ligation, assisted reproduction and gender affirming surgery, will be provided for at the new National Maternity Hospital.
The issue will come before ministers again in two weeks’ time.
Mr Donnelly said the plans were not approved yesterday because it was felt that the many questions raised, which reflected the “very genuine concerns” people have around the country, had to be addressed.
Minister insists every service provided by law available at NMH (RTE)
Meanwhile…
…via Irish Times:
Fine Gael Ministers, including Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys, Minister for Justice Helen McEntee and Minister of State for Transport Hildegarde Naughton, as well as Green Party Minister Catherine Martin, sought assurances from Mr Donnelly that all legal healthcare services would be available at the hospital.
National Maternity Hospital relocation plan on hold as Ministers express doubts (Irish Times)
Meanwhile…
“Why if the hospital is going to be independent, does it have to be owned by a Vatican approved private company?”
– Dr Peter Boylan on co-location and the National Maternity Hospital#TonightVMTV pic.twitter.com/qNK7YVLZ5A
— TonightVMTV (@TonightVMTV) May 3, 2022
Last night.
Meanwhile…
“We want to see this hospital built. We’ve spent years, putting State money into religious-owned infrastructure, we’ve seen the impact that has had on women’s healthcare, so we have to move in the right direction on this,” Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik | https://t.co/Nuv68AOgEu pic.twitter.com/YfmJqdCW2t
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 4, 2022
This morning.
Donnelly is just as sneaky as Harris. There must be something in the water in Wicklow to have foisted two such wasters on us.
Which part of ‘No Religious ownership, part-ownership, direction, part-directionetc.’ do they not understand?
Can we start a campaign to bring back Vincent Browne please?
https://www.tiktok.com/@irishdailytimes/video/7089462979401387270
SOQ
The top ten comment of all time on broasheet
If only we could or even head hunt someone of his calibre
The Govt can’t sign off on the proposed new #NMH deal while its terms are still shrouded in mystery.
There are many questions yet to be answered by the Taoiseach & his Health Minister.
Is the Taoiseach just going to ignore these issues of national concern?, asks @RoisinShortall
https://twitter.com/SocDems/status/1521473817499082754
Róisín nails it.
The thing that gets me is the taxpayer builds it and the asset given to what seems now a shelf company owned by the same religious order that is against one of the medical procedures proposed
I wonder will the government use taxes to build me a home and hand me the ownership of that asset ?
Just move the bloody hospital or better still Use a compulsory purchase order for the whole site including the land which is owned by the Vincent’s group
Simple
Then the nation owns its hospital and I am sure the religious orders were involved in the child trafficking and the abusers of the unfortunates put under their care and restitutions can be made for the sins of the past
Better still, just CPO the enormous golf course next door (or part of it).
ah well if he promises, gtf
Ivana contributing nothing as per usual.
Is Donnelly worried that if this gets delayed to remove the religious aspects he won’t get the credit?
I am surprised Broadsheet does not appear to have any ardent pro-Church commenters…. any takers?
I suspect KCavan’s fingers are twitching at the keyboard right now
It seems that a lot of them are still in bed.
Yawn, it’s only 6.00AM here but I’ve been up a while.
newsJustin seems to have retired…or lost the faith ?
Good Morning Janet!
…we used to have ABM…direct from Iona…but as someone pointed out last week…he’s been eaten since…
with a nice bottle of chianti, good riddance
morning :)
Smells like a phoney war. Paddy will build a Dublin hospital and give it to consultants to make more millions of euros.
Like they did with Broadband
Andrew I doubt they will
But seriously the taxpayers are going to spend a €billion plus on this and to hand ownership to a religion organisations shelf company is let’s say retarded by any means of the imagination
It’s time all hospitals are taken over by the state
You cannot have Catholic doctrine treating Jews Muslims Protestants Hindus
And it’s about time that bell ringing before the news at 6pm was dropped
We are not a Catholic state anymore and religious bull poo divided this country long enough both north and south
We are an Irish state
Our generation has suffered at the hands of a Catholic controlled state especially in the 1930s to 1980s then to a lesser state there after
For god sake they cannot even today bury the remains of babies thrown into a sewer in tuam
It always comes back to the Angelus.
stares into distance …
The dermatology department looks like a right dump.
Why is it FF politicians are still gullible enough to trust catholic religious organisations after decades of rape, slavery, torture and child trafficking? The state should be seizing their assets which were earned on the backs of their victims.
Why build a new hospital in the middle of a congested suburb that’s supposed to be a National hospital? Nobody seems to be objecting to that or perhaps this whole tie in with the nuns is just a smokescreen for that? That’s far more important than a hospital with ties to a religious group that will for the most part still work and not affect joe public.
the government can’t control the senior civil servants and they’re the ones pulling the strings of the FFG puppet show.
I’ll be amazed if FFG they can keep the church fully out of the NCH without making a serious concession elsewhere, possibly one that won’t be disclosed.
I’ve dealt with the church’s legal team on land acquisition for other infrastructure projects and they exercise their power very well. loadsa cash for the lawyers and they usually get what they want.
The amount of people in Ireland in 2022 who still give unwarranted levels of respect to religious organisations is baffling.