Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think we made the right decision when we decided to replace our very old and out of date maternity hospitals with new buildings and to co-locate them on the sites of adult hospitals. Holles Street hospital will be co-located with St. Vincent's hospital, the Rotunda Hospital will be co-located with Blanchardstown hospital and the Coombe will be co-located at the new healthcare campus beside the children's hospital and St. James's Hospital. All three of those hospitals, including Holles Street, are privately owned. The difference is that when the new ones are built, they will be publicly owned. They will be State-owned buildings on State land. We need to sort out the details of the legal transfer over the next couple of weeks.

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