No legal barriers to State owning National Maternity Hospital site – legal analysis

The issue of the ownership and governance of the new hospital site has been the subject of ongoing debate, with concerns raised over the independence of the hospital. File picture: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

There is nothing standing in the way of a publicly-owned National Maternity Hospital, a new legal analysis has said.

Commissioned by non-profit Uplift, the analysis conducted by Stephen Dodd SC says the State would be justified to carry out a compulsory purchase order on the land owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity.