IRELAND
Newstalk
8 May 2017
Michael Staines
The Minister for Health is hoping to bring forward proposals to end the ownership dispute that has engulfed Ireland’s new National Maternity Hospital by the end of the month.
Minister Simon Harris said officials from the Department of Health are meeting with both hospitals this week – after which he plans to attend talks himself.
Over the weekend an estimated 2,000 people took to the streets calling for the new facility to be kept in public ownership.
Protestors gathered at the Garden of Remembrance before marching to government buildings.
Marchers carried a petition signed by 103,607 people demanding that the decision to hand ownership of the hospital over to religious group, the Sisters of Charity be overturned.
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