Dr. Peter Boylan:

It is hard to know. Until we have sight of the Vatican papers, we will have no clear idea. It could be that St. Vincent's wants to hold on. Hospital groups are quite common now around the world. The Bon Secours, for example, have a large hospital group, which recently merged with the American counterpart. They have billions of turnover and so on. It may well be that St. Vincent's wants keep itself as a group. I notice in the powers of the memorandum and articles and so on of the constitutions that it has the power to mortgage or merge with another like-minded charity. If the Deputy takes the model, for example, of the Bon Secours, it is a charitable organisation that has merged with a charity from the United States.