Dáil debates

Tuesday, 17 May 2022

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members]

 

6:50 pm

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I welcome this Sinn Féin motion. The Government is displaying incredible disrespect for this Parliament and for democracy by its actions. We have already had three Private Members' motions calling for full public ownership of the new national maternity hospital.

The Government has voted in favour of those motions. Today's is the latest. The Government is faced with a motion which states that we must pursue the full realisation of the promise that was made by the Religious Sisters of Charity to gift the land to the people of Ireland and engage at the highest level with the new ownership group behind St. Vincent's Healthcare Group, St. Vincent's Holdings CLG, to secure full public ownership of the site and new building. It is the height of hypocrisy that on the very day that the Government has rammed through a Cabinet decision to plough ahead with this proposal, it sits back and pretends it supports this motion.

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