After a stand-off in recent weeks which threatened the future of the proposed new national maternity hospital, the Government believes it can reach agreement with Holles Street and St Vincent’s hospitals to allow the project commence before the end of the year. The new hospital, to be constructed on the campus of St Vincent’s in south Dublin, would then be operated by a new National Maternity Hospital company under a licence granted by the HSE. The HSE would pay a nominal rent to the St Vincent’s Group, possibly about €10 a year. Governance arrangementsA new deal for the development of the facility is also likely to involve significant restructuring of the governance arrangements at the existing National Maternity Hospital. In a statement issued on Friday, the organisers said that the “recent repeal referendum shows that the current proposal for a new maternity hospital is clearly not acceptable to the Irish people”.

Source: The Irish Times December 08, 2018 01:52 UTC