Sinn Fein to Call for National Maternity Hospital’s Independence

By Mary Minihan
Irish Times
April 28, 2017

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A graphic of the proposed National Maternity Hospital in Dublin.

Sinn Fein will call on the Government to ensure the new National Maternity Hospital (NMH) has “legally-guaranteed independence” from all non-medical influence when the Dail returns next week

The party’s spokeswoman on health, Louise O’Reilly, has published a private members’ business motion on the governance of the new hospital.

The motion will be debated in the Dail on Wednesday.

Describing conditions at the maternity hospital’s current Holles Street site in Dublin as “deplorable”, she said the new NMH should be built on the St Vincent’s University Hospital campus as quickly as possible.