David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is not the Minister's job to sell the message of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group. It is his job to stand up for taxpayers and the interests of the State. We know the view of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group as it has been expressed. There are some holes in that argument and I will get to those in a moment. However, my point is that before all of this, and this process has been going on for many years, the Religious Sisters of Charity wanted to gift the land to this entity as opposed to gifting it to the State. St. Vincent's Healthcare Group now owns the land. It is free to do what it chooses with the land. Am I correct that there is no legal impediment to St. Vincent's Healthcare Group gifting the land to the State? If it wanted to do that, it could.