Two HSE directors criticise 'unsatisfactory' National Maternity Hospital ownership deal

A model of the proposed new National Maternity Hospital on the St Vincent's campus. Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins

The two dissenting HSE board directors who opposed the National Maternity Hospital deal have broken their silence.

In a joint statement to the Oireachtas health committee, obtained by the Irish Examiner, Professor Deirdre Madden and Dr Sarah McLoughlin say that St Vincent’s Hospital's claim that they must retain ownership of the land “is unsatisfactory” and runs contrary to the argument that the location of the underlying freehold ownership has no bearing on the governance or operation of the hospital.