Sinn Féin to table motion calling for maternity hospital to be built on State land

The new National Maternity Hospital will be fully clinically, operationally, and financially independent, it will have its own constitution, and its own operating license with the HSE, the Dáil heard. File picture: Collins Photos

Sinn Féin is to bring forward a fresh Dáil motion next week calling on the Government to ensure the new National Maternity Hospital is built on land owned by the State.

The motion will call on the Government to “pursue the full realisation of the promise that was made by the Religious Sisters of Charity to gift the land to the people of Ireland” and to “engage, at the highest level, with the new ownership group behind SVHG, St Vincent’s Holdings CLG, to secure full public ownership of the site and new building”.