Irish Examiner View: No perfect solution to NMH dilemmas

Leo Varadkar has warned that “the perfect can be the enemy of the very, very good”, and he is correct.

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

To the outsider, the proverbial being from Mars looking on, it may seem strange that, when we can’t guarantee the survival of the world for the next 50 years, Ireland should be worrying about a 300-year guarantee on land which has been identified to build a much-needed, new, secular, maternity hospital.

And even more so that a coalition Government facing a host of difficult social and political challenges can see its narrow majority further reduced as a consequence of a vote which turned into a piece of performance art.