Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Monday, 16 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. James Menton:

That is so long ago that I cannot give a particular year. The only contact is that, under the old constitutions, our former shareholders had the right to appoint two representatives to the board. In 2017, when they announced that they were leaving healthcare in a slightly more formal way, those two representatives withdrew from the board. Over the four years since then, in anticipation of the conclusion of the transfer of the shares, the board and our management teams have worked on the new constitutions of St. Vincent's Healthcare Group free of any Catholic ethos or ethical guidance from the Religious Sisters of Charity. While the final step was concluded a few weeks ago - in April - the direction of travel was clear over the last years.

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