Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion

Mr. John O'Donoghue:

-----can go back to feudal times but for anyone's understanding in layman's language, what is happening here is that there is a site being devised, granted or whatever word we want to use, to the State for 299 years. That lease contains a right for the State to build a hospital on those lands, maintain that hospital, and grant an operating licence to an operator of that hospital. There are certain obligations that it continues to maintain it for public healthcare. That is in the interests of the State and of St. Vincent's. They want public healthcare. Again, if this lease is terminated or was terminated or in the unlikely event that the State - we are talking about the State here - does not comply with its obligations, St. Vincent's has to continue to use the building on that land for public healthcare services.

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