Dr. Catherine Day:

There are 14 voluntary hospitals, of which we concluded 12 are faith-based, although some of them would contest that. For example, the National Maternity Hospital has a board of 100 people, which is, according to its charter, chaired by the Archbishop of Dublin, though he has never chaired a meeting. For us, that technically still constitutes faith-based involvement while in reality the hospital has already moved away from that. These are all individual decisions of the faith-based organisations.