Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Simon McGarr:
The licence, the lease and the constitution all say that the relevant services will be clinically appropriate and legally permissible. Deputy Shortall referred to information that suggests there is to be a revision of the Minister's golden share such that it would also include an additional restriction so that instead of only looking for things that are lawfully permissible, the Minister could also only look for things that are clinically appropriate. I know Dr. Boylan has raised this question. That leaves the question to future Ministers for Health who would be in the position of having to determine what is clinically appropriate. That seems like a strange set of provisions to insert.
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