Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I think women would trust clinicians maybe more than lawyers in terms of a maternity hospital. I do not want to get into an argy-bargy across the floor of the House. My point is that clinicians are saying that we cannot tolerate any longer the substandard physical accommodation in Holles Street. All of us are saying that we all want it to happen quickly but not just now, let us go another few years, and do a CPO. How long would that take? Is the Opposition seriously suggesting that 300 years at a cost of €10 per year somehow impedes or undermines the clinical independence and financial independence of the hospital? It does not.

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