Nuns Who Owe Millions in Abuse Reparations Given Hospital

By Ellen Coyne
The Times
March 24, 2017

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/52572efa-0ffd-11e7-9efc-104ca844d0d4

A maternity hospital will be run by the Sisters of Charity’s healthcare group

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 ˆ200 million of taxpayers’ money.

The move to increase the assets of the Religious Sisters of Charity has been described as extraordinary following the recent revelation that it still owes ˆ3 million to the state redress scheme.

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 ˆ2 million of the ˆ5 million it offered to contribute in reparations to abuse victims. Its most recent payment was in 2013.

The religious…