IRELAND
Irish Independent
Maeve Sheehan
April 23 2017
The 25-page unpublished “Terms of Agreement” between the two hospitals spells out how the independence of the maternity hospital will be protected through a new Designated Activity Company providing maternity services.
It says:
• The new company’s memorandum and articles to provide for “reserved powers” and a “golden share” – effectively a ministerial veto – to protect the autonomy of the board.
• The “agreed reserve powers” are “to be exercised in an undiluted manner by all of the directors” and include specific reference to the hospital’s “clinical and operational independence” in providing maternity services “without religious, ethnic or other distinction”.
• The “reserve powers” also refer to budgetary control, the retention of the master role and “the retention and utilisation” of any donations, gifts or bequests to the maternity hospital”.
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