Bacik: 'Valid concerns' over maternity hospital ownership remain unanswered

The Labour Party leader believes National Maternity Hospital should be built on State-owned land

Labour leader Ivana Bacik: 'If this is to be public ownership in all but name, why not just ensure that the hospital is in public ownership?'.

Labour leader Ivana Bacik denounced the Taoiseach’s comments that concerns over ownership of land where the new National Maternity Hospital is to be built are merely "red herrings".

While mothers and babies are in dire need of a new maternity hospital in Dublin, concerns have been raised about building major State infrastructure for reproductive health on land owned by a Catholic religious order.