Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is secular, but that does not mean it is completely divorced from the past because it has often done a lot of that.

I have seen first hand the incredible care that it provides to the patients. We need to make sure that the skills it has are also available to the women in the national maternity hospital not an ambulance ride away but in a corridor beside it. That is why this approach is being taken.

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