John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that, but it concerns the present situation. Things may change in the future. This is the point I have been making regarding the long-term lease and structure of the board of management. In other words, what the Minister has said applies today but I refer to what might happen in future. Several clinicians around the country have refused to carry out the procedures concerned since the repeal of the eighth amendment. This is an area of anxiety.

My next question concerns the fact that representatives of the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group will constitute the bulk of the board of the new national maternity hospital, or the new national maternity hospital will to some degree be subject to it. Are any legally available clinical procedures not available now in St. Vincent's University Hospital?