Department of Health says hospital will offer access to all legally available treatment, including terminations and voluntary sterilisation

Speaking on his way into Cabinet, Mr Ryan said there had been clarity since Cabinet last considered the proposal for co-location with St Vincent’s

Everyone wants the same result here — an independent hospital that can be trusted by women everywhere, writes Fergus Finlay 

Chair of St Vincent's Healthcare Group to say there will 'multiple protections' to prevent religious control over new maternity hospital

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“Women must be able to trust in the independence of their maternity hospital, and know that all of the legally available reproductive services are available to them."

Support of Catherine Martin for St Vincent’s site 'highly significant' in allowing Government to proceed with project

Previously, Ms Martin was the only minister to reserve her support for the hospital plan but is now backing it after getting letters with reassurances from the health minister and St Vincent's Healthcare Group

Professor Higgins and a number of colleagues said the new maternity hospital should go ahead and  it will have clinical independence 

Experts appear to be on the same page, but it may not be enough to convince the dissenters on the National Maternity Hospital move, writes Alison O’Connor.

One Green Party TD has already admitted that the vote will put her "in a difficult position".

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said there would be no religious involvement in the new hospital or on the procedures carried out

Committee 'believes that further time is necessary to hear from a broader range of stakeholders and voices on the issue'

Micheál Martin said that every director of midwifery in Ireland has written to the Government in recent days calling on it to progress this plan.

The Minister for Health has been called in to address a number of concerns raised in relation to the proposed maternity facility on the site of St Vincent’s Hospital

Professor Deirdre Madden and Dr Sarah McLoughlin said that it is "not clear why retaining freehold ownership of the premises has resulted in an agreement that enables St Vincent's Hospital group to nominate one-third of members of the National Maternity Hospital board".

Retention of ownership of the land by the healthcare group is "so it can use the value of it as leverage for future financial transactions", said the Sinn Féin leader.

Vital to have  a national maternity hospital that is open to every woman in Ireland, whatever her colour, ethnic origin, or income

Catherine Martin says she is awaiting feedback before giving her view

It is not just religious groups denying women access to services, consultants, anesthesiologists and managers can also stand in the way.

The Labour Party leader believes National Maternity Hospital should be built on State-owned land

Earlier, Taoiseach insisted that fears around the National Maternity Hospital proposals have been 'comprehensively addressed' 

There is a HSE ban on birthing in water for women availing of the homebirth service. Labouring in water is allowed but mothers are supposed to exit the pool for the birth

Health minister to answer questions amid controversy about ownership and governance of the delayed hospital

'You would need cross qualifications in land law, canon law, obstetrics, urology, gynaecology and corporate law to get anywhere near having a full and black-and-white understanding of the current state of affairs'

Preparatory works, in the form of a car park and a pharmacy, on the St Vincent’s Hospital site was done before full approval was granted for the new maternity hospital

If the Government signs off on the current deal, the State will be left owning only the shell of the National Maternity Hospital, writes Marie O’Connor.

The Post Traumatic Catholic Syndrome is understandably strong, given how Irish women have been treated over the years, but we must not be blinded by it

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan defended the deal, claiming 'a further delay' is not needed in the long-awaited project

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said all concerns and questions regarding the planned National Maternity Hospital (NMH) must be listened to and answered

A new National Maternity Hospital has been talking about for decades. On Tuesday evening, the Government stopped short of endorsing a proposal to move the National Maternity Hospital to the St Vincent’s site

'I see absolutely no justification for the new publicly funded National Maternity Hospital to be owned by St Vincent’s Holdings,' Dr Peter Boylan said in a letter to Government

There are concerns that St Vincent’s Holdings will still be controlled by a religious ethos.

The order will have no role in the new maternity hospital

Opposition TDs criticised health minister's speech for 'not saying anything new'

52 clinicians write to assure the Taoiseach and 'more importantly the women of Ireland' that the National Maternity Hospital will not be curtailed by any religious ethos 

Leasing proposal for new hospital offered by Sisters of Charity should not be accepted by the State

State would be justified to carry out a compulsory purchase order on the land owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity, analysis says

Order announced last year that they were transferring their shares in St Vincent’s Healthcare Group to a new independent charity, St Vincent’s Holdings

Given what we now know about the level of operational control to be exercised over the new hospital by the Catholic church, it is imperative that the Government demands the freehold ownership of the hospital site

— "I'm still not fully convinced that it's going to be ok yet. And I don't think I will until I am literally holding this baby in my arms"

Doctors reassuring the public of clinical independence at the new National Maternity Hospital are obliged to take women's concerns seriously — the recent past should be enough evidence for anyone 

Minister of State Mary Butler says she understands the 'concerns' of women around the ownership and clinical independence of the new National Maternity Hospital

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