Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator Higgins for her questions. I will ask Mr. O'Donoghue or Ms O'Sullivan to come in on the clauses and what an exit strategy might look like in 100 or 200 years. To be clear, the covenants around the €10 a year lease, are not linked to the terms "clinically appropriate" or "legally permissible", they are just linked to the HSE being the tenant, running a hospital on the site and not seeking freehold of the site. It is not linked to the NMH's constitution. It is linked to the HSE and the State essentially running public healthcare services on that site.