Nationwide demos over new Maternity Hospital

Protests will take place outside maternity hospitals in Dublin, Limerick, Cork and Galway.

Its over government’s decision to hand over control of the New National Maternity Hospital to the Sisters of Charity.

It follows yesterday’s announcement by the board of St Vincent’s Healthcare group that it is going to review the status of the project, because of the ‘controversy and misinformation’ that has arisen over it.

It puts the future of the new hospital in jeopardy, despite a strongly-worded statement issued by the Health Minster last night insisting that he was
fully committed to delivering what he said was the ‘long overdue’ facility.

Social Democrat Roisin Shortall says questions remain about governance and ownership: