Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

No. I am proposing that the new national maternity hospital would be a national maternity hospital and that it would, as it already does, pay the same commissions, deliver the same services and so forth but that the ownership and the governance would be public and nationally delivered.

I have limited time so I would like the Minister to address my questions on whether services will be available, what services will be available, how they will be made available and when they will be advised? Why is there a difference in the way these services would be provided by St. Vincent's Healthcare Group? Why, from its perspective, is there a difference between how it can work with this hospital and how it could work with a publicly owned hospital? What are the differences in how the services are provided, because that is the reason it has given for not selling?