Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald wants no interference with maternity hospital

Tánaiste and Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has called on Catholic religious authorities to back off and allow the proposed maternity hospital for the St Vincent’s Hospital campus proceed.

Speaking to reporters at the graduation of 143 gardaí at Templemore College, she said: “The women of Ireland badly need it. It has to go ahead and it has to go ahead quickly.

“But I would say the time for any interference in a modern maternity hospital for the future, any interference by religious authorities, that time is in the past.