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

What I am saying is that over the last fortnight, or for the first week or ten days of this debate, from all sides of the Opposition, it was all about ownership. In other words, this keeps shifting and the goalposts keep changing. There is an element of that but what we must do is address the real concerns people have in terms of what can happen in the hospital and what services can be permitted. The Government received very strong legal advice, the strongest of legal advice, that the legal guarantees mean that all services which are lawful in this State not only will be, but have to be, permitted.

The directors of the hospital are obliged to ensure the provision of all legally permissible services. That is the point. The legal guarantees have been given and address all of the issues raised by people genuinely.

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