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

That is my more personal view of the situation. That is the first point.

The second point is that the chairman was in no doubt as to the State's desire to have the entire site. That is communicated again in correspondence dated 26 July 2021 where the Secretary General of the Department of Health stated that the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, had already reiterated his predecessor's request for St. Vincent's Healthcare Group to transfer ownership of the site to the State.

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