Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Peter Boylan:
If they are all single rooms, I do not know whether one area will be put aside for fee-paying patients, private patients insured, or whether they will be mixed in. I just do not know.
Certainly, on that independent review, Professor Deirdre Madden and Professor Jane Grimson were also very much involved in the review that was chaired by Dr. Catherine Day. They were absolutely clear, with their recommendation 6.3, that the land should be owned by the State. Indeed, both the Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, and the Taoiseach have stated in the Dáil that the hospital would be State-owned on State land, and that is actually not happening. As the Deputy says, that is accepted by Government, as I understand the recommendations of that report.
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