Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Monday, 16 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Donal O'Raghallaigh:

In considering it for SVHG, if it is disposing of an asset then it uses its assets for charitable purposes in pursuance of its objectives and its provision of healthcare facilities. It cannot give away an asset unless that is for charitable purposes that meet its objectives. Where the lease has been gifted to the HSE as part of that, that we are satisfied that meets the requirement that it is pursuant to charitable objectives to ultimately build the hospital. As one of the witnesses touched on last week, there is provision in the lease to reflect a charitable law piece that in the event the property is no longer used for a charitable purpose, a market rent for the site, disregarding the buildings and it is only a market rent on the site, would be payable so there would be some return for the charitable purpose.

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