Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Simon McGarr:
I am afraid that because "clinically appropriate" is placed so high in the hierarchy of permitted uses in the hierarchy of the principal object of the company, it is the fulcrum upon which the entire set of agreements rests and, depending on its interpretation, these agreements could proceed exactly as the State parties have described their intention to be or they could proceed in a very different way. That ambiguity is not only present, but it goes to the very core of the interpretation of these agreements and how this hospital will operate into the future.
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