Seanad debates

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Second Stage

 

12:00 pm

Photo of Ruairi QuinnRuairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

I will address that question momentarily. Let me address the first question. These are the owners of a massive infrastructure, including two hospitals in this city, St. Vincent's Hospital and the Mater Hospital. It will cost us €600 million to build a new children's hospital. The religious orders own the two buildings and, when they are no longer using the buildings as educational buildings under the patronage they choose, they could deed them to the State rather than sell them off. That is all I ask. It continues as a Catholic school under the patronage and ethos they choose but, if they are to dispose of them as they have done in the past, the State will have first claim on them.

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