IRELAND
Irish Mirror
BY BLANAID MURPHY
APR 2017
A Government minister has claimed that the new National Maternity Hospital needs to be run by the State and not an order of nuns.
Strains within the Cabinet are showing over the decision to hand over full ownership of the new e300million taxpayer-funded facility to the nuns who ran the religious order behind the notorious Magdaline laundries.
But the controversial move has been slammed by Independent TDs and could rock the stability of the coalition.
The Minister of State for Disability Finian McGrath insisted there needs to be a separation of church and Government.
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