Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps Mr. Devane or Dr. Mahony could come in on the Mulvey agreement, but I will make one point. The idea that the ownership of the land has anything to do with church influence at this point is simply not true. The church, the nuns, the priests, the rabbis, the imams: none of them are involved. St. Vincent's Healthcare Group is a secular and voluntary healthcare group that we are partnering with. Whether the St. Vincent's Healthcare Group has the freehold, whether the national maternity hospital has the freehold, or whether the HSE has the freehold, has nothing to do with the church. The church is off the pitch completely. We really owe it to people to keep repeating that and reminding people that the church is gone. The order is gone and the nuns are gone. This is a secular healthcare organisation, with both of the groups involved.

The Senator made a point about where the governance structure came from. It is my understanding that it came from the Mulvey agreement in 2016. Dr. Mahony was involved in that and perhaps she will speak to it.