Proposal to end row over National Maternity Hospital site 'is smoke and mirrors'

The National Maternity Hospital, Holles St, Dublin. Ongoing concerns over ownership and governance have led to a political wrangle over moving the hospital from Holles St to a site at Elm St in Dublin 4, where it will be co-located with St Vincent’s Hospital. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

A campaign group has hit out at the "smoke and mirrors" proposal for ending the long-running row over the ownership of the National Maternity Hospital site.

Ongoing concerns over ownership and governance have led to a political wrangle over moving the hospital from its existing location at Dublin’s Holles St to a site at Elm St in Dublin 4, where it will be co-located with St Vincent’s Hospital.