IRELAND
Irish Independent
Allison Bray
April 19 2017
Survivors of the Magdalene Laundries are appalled that the controversial Sisters of Charity order that ran the notorious workhouses will still own the new National Maternity Hospital – even if it is independently run.
Dr Rhona Mahony, Master of the National Maternity Hospital, issued a statement last night insisting that the new €300m hospital at Elm Park in south Dublin, will be “operated by a new company with an independent board and will be clinically and operationally entirely independent in line with national maternity policy”.
But Steven O’Riordan, chair of Magdalene Survivors Together, said rather than the State paying the order for the land, the nuns should be required to hand the proceeds back to the State and have nothing to do with the hospital.
Survivors are infuriated that the order still hasn’t lived up to its legal and moral responsibilities to pay millions of euro in compensation to victims of institutional abuse – despite agreeing to do so more than 15 years ago.
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