National Maternity Hospital: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2022-03-31
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

If we just think about this for a second, what is happening? What are we looking to do? We have a hospital about 400 m from where we are talking this evening, which is staffed by incredible and dedicated clinicians who provide a full range of services. They are signatories to a new agreement whereby they will be moving to a state-of-the-art building at Elm Park. It is they who have signed up to this agreement and it is they who are saying they will have full independence. I believe that the clinicians, midwives and doctors in Holles Street would never in a million years surrender their independence.

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Sitting date: 2022-03-31