The source said that if the deal receives final Government approval, it could allow construction to get under way within 18 months whereas any rejection of the deal could mean the Government has to go “back to the drawing board”.
The Make Our National Maternity Hospital Public campaign said on Sunday, however, that the proposed deal would not settle rows on governance and that they are “merely a smoke and mirrors exercise to deflect from legitimate concerns around ownership, and the intransigence of an organisation determined to hold on to a valuable asset”.
“Extending the length of a lease over the site, which the St Vincent’s Healthcare Group insists it must own for ‘clinical, governance and operational reasons’ does nothing to instil confidence regarding the independence of the new hospital. If ownership of the site is necessary for governance, the State must own it,” the group said.
“We remain unconvinced of the wisdom of transferring the National Maternity Hospital to the St Vincent’s site, and vehemently opposed to the handover of a publicly constructed, publicly funded facility to a private charity.”on the ninth anniversary of her death, and to “highlight the need for public, secular ownership of our new National Maternity Hospital”.
The plan to move the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street in central Dublin to the St Vincent’s campus has been in train since 2013 but the project has been mired in controversy for years.are due to transfer the ownership of lands at St Vincent’s to an independent entity, which was to lease the new maternity hospital site to the State for 99 years with a 50-year extension.
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