'Utterly intolerable' ownership deal for National Maternity Hospital dominates Dáil

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan defended the deal, claiming 'a further delay' is not needed in the long-awaited project

An artist's impression of the planned National Maternity Hospital. The proposed ownership arrangements relating to the new National Maternity Hospital are “kafkaesque” and “utterly intolerable,” the Dáil has heard.

The proposed ownership arrangements relating to the new National Maternity Hospital are “kafkaesque” and “utterly intolerable,” the Dáil has heard.

The new hospital will not be up and running before 2030 even if it was signed off tomorrow, and the proposed arrangements “are strange” and not what you would design from the beginning, the Government has heard.