Varadkar: Government TDs who vote against National Maternity Hospital will face sanction

The Tánaiste said the Government has not chosen to allow a free vote on the Sinn Féin motion currently under debate in the Dáil

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

Any government TD who votes with the Opposition on a motion relating to the National Maternity Hospital will face “inevitable” sanction, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said.

He said the Government has not chosen to allow a free vote on the Sinn Féin motion currently under debate in the Dáil and it is expected that government TDs would back the coalition’s position.