IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
UPDATE 2.35pm: The Health Minister, Simon Harris, has said there won’t be any religious influence on the governance of the new national maternity hospital.
The land on which the hospital will be built is owned by The Sisters of Charity.
However Minister Simon Harris says the hospital will have full clinical, operational, financial and budgetary independence.
His comments come after after opposition parties claimed there could be a conflict of interest between medical decisions and Catholic principles.
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