Latest: Board 'totally supportive' of move to St Vincent's site
- The National Maternity Hospital board re-endorses agreement to move to Vincent's campus
- Former Master of the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street Dr Peter Boylan has resigned from its executive committee this morning.
- Last night's meeting of the NMH board re-endorsed the move to the St Vincent's Hospital campus.
- Chairman Brendan Carr criticised the attitude of "some of the senior people in the board" at the meeting.
- Health Minister Simon Harris has ruled out issuing a compulsory purchase order for the site.
- A Government spokesman has insisted the project is "absolutely going ahead".
- The St Vincent's Healthcare Group (SVHG), controlled by the Sisters of Charity, issued a statement confirming there will be full clinical independence at the new facility and will meet later today.
- The Government proposes to use legal deals to gaurantee clinical independence.
- Labour's Health spokesperson says "there has been no legal work done on this at all".
The board of St. Vincent's Healthcare group says it's totally supportive of the relocation of the national maternity hospital to its site.
