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A protest has been held outside the Department of Health in Dublin over the ownership of the new National Maternity Hospital, which is to be built on the campus of St Vincent’s Hospital.
It has emerged that the Religious Sisters of Charity is to be given ownership of the €300m taxpayer-funded hospital because it owns the land on which it is to be built.
It comes as Master of the National Maternity Hospital Dr Rhona Mahony has said she is happy with the deal reached to move the hospital to the grounds of St Vincent’s.
She said: “There is a triple-lock in place to guarantee absolute autonomy and independence of the clinical services we deliver.”
Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke, Dr Mahony said this includes the retention of the mastership system, an entirely independent board dedicated to the provision of maternity, gynaecological and neonatal services, and an independent company to run the facility.
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