Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Monday, 16 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. James Menton:
It was in the ether for over seven and a half years. Colleagues and I engaged with the leadership team of the Religious Sisters of Charity to reach a mutually strategic outcome, where it ceased its involvement in Irish healthcare and we became a secular organisation, which was the board's objective. That journey took seven and a half years and the final steps were concluded in April 2022. It is important from the point of view of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group that, having regard to social and other change in modern Ireland in the 21st century, we become a secular organisation. It is good for our organisation and it is good for our patients and their families.
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